Scientists are growing increasingly confident that climate change is making extreme weather events more frequent and severe.
Perhaps most significantly, rising sea levels mean that when storm surges occur, they are worse.
A storm surge is a rise in sea level caused by wind and atmospheric pressure changes which particularly impacts lying land and the communities that live there.Hurricane Ian caused 'historic' damage In fact, it is often the storm surge that causes the most damage during a storm, as happened in Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Superstorm Sandy in 2012.
As Hurricane Ian continues to rip through Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis has already called the damage caused to his state by "historic" with more than two million people left without power and the true extent of the damage still unclear.
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