新的研究证实了全球变暖和强飓风之间的联系

新的研究证实了全球变暖和强飓风之间的联系

CLIMATE CHANGE’S FACILITATING extreme weather events is no new revelation, but new research confirms that human-caused global warming is making hurricanes more powerful.

气候变化助长了极端天气事件的发生，这并不是什么新发现，但新的研究证实，人为造成的全球变暖正在使飓风变得更强大。

A study by researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of Wisconsin at Madison found that the chance of major tropical storms, which includes hurricanes and typhoons, is going up each year.

美国国家海洋和大气管理局和威斯康辛大学麦迪逊分校的研究人员进行的一项研究发现，包括飓风和台风在内的大型热带风暴的发生几率每年都在上升。

Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study estimates that the chance of a tropical cyclone becoming a Category 3 storm or greater is increasing by eight percent each decade.

发表在《美国国家科学院院刊》上的这项研究估计，热带气旋成为3级或以上风暴的几率每10年增加8%。

James Kossin, lead author of the study, told The Washington Post, “We’ve just increased our confidence of our understanding of the link between hurricane intensity and climate change. We have high confidence that there is a human fingerprint on these changes.”

这项研究的主要作者詹姆斯·科辛告诉《华盛顿邮报》：“我们对飓风强度和气候变化之间的联系的理解增加了信心。我们很有信心，这些变化上有人类的参与。”

Using a 39-year data set, researchers found that storms are becoming stronger and wetter, and hurricanes are growing more severe in their intensity.

通过使用39年的数据集，研究人员发现，风暴变得越来越强，越来越潮湿，飓风的强度也越来越强。

According to Kossin, “We have a significantly building body of evidence that these storms have already changed in very substantial ways, and all of them are dangerous.”

科辛表示，“我们有大量的证据表明，这些风暴已经以非常显著的方式发生了变化，而且它们都很危险。”

Researchers are specifically keeping an eye on the tropical Atlantic, which has seen an uptick in early-season storms. Likely due to warmer-than-normal ocean temperatures, more potent storms have been brewing in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean.

研究人员特别关注热带大西洋地区，该地区季初的风暴有所增加。可能是由于海洋温度高于正常水平，墨西哥湾和加勒比海地区正在酝酿更猛烈的风暴。