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From Florence to Mangkhut, climate change is the reason for bad storms

It's no longer an unanswerable hypothetical, like pondering how many angels could dance on the head of a pin, we know a great deal about it - and the answers are troubling

A view of Hurricane Florence is shown churning in the Atlantic Ocean heading for the eastern coastline of the United States. Photo: Reuters
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A view of Hurricane Florence is shown churning in the Atlantic Ocean heading for the eastern coastline of the United States, taken by cameras outside the International Space Station, September 12, 2018. NASA/Handout via REUTERS

There’s a familiar refrain that goes up when extreme weather events bear down on population centres, as Hurricane Florence and Typhoon Mangkhut are now doing in the western Atlantic and

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First Published: Sep 17 2018 | 1:46 PM IST

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