Hurricane-Related Financial Damage Could Increase Significantly as Ocean Warm (IMAGE)

University of Vermont

Hurricane-Related Financial Damage Could Increase Significantly as Ocean Warm

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A trailer in Marathon, Florida, the most populated island in the Florida Keys, was completely destroyed by Hurricane Irma. A new University of Vermont study projects that financial loss could increase more than 70 percent by 2100 if oceans warm at a rate forecast by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change under the panel's worst case scenario.

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Zak Bennett

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