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Delayed global warming could reduce human exposure to cyclones

Rising temperatures are expected to increase the number of people exposed to tropical cyclones, but timing might prove crucial to the success of mitigation strategies.
  1. Abigail Klopper
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It’s clear that the devastation inflicted by tropical cyclones will increase as the planet warms. But socio-economic models that predict changes in the human population could be used to markedly reduce the number of people exposed, as Geiger et al. report in Nature Climate Change1.

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Nature 598, 35 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02659-4

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  1. Geiger, T. et al. Nature Clim. Change https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01157-9 (2021)

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