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We so easily underestimate the energy.
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It takes about 2000 times as much energy to raise a cubic meter of water 1 degree as a cubic meter of air.
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It takes about 4000 times as much energy to evaporate 1 kg of water as to raise 1 kg of air 1 deg.
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Ever try to boil a gallon of water?
Harvey evaporated, condensed, and then dumped, a trillion gallons (!) on Houston, alone.
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Irma is 300 miles wide, giving an area of roughly 200k sq.km.
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The sun drives this heat engine.
200k sq.km = a solar collector 10+ million times as powerful as the Bruce NGS.
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A small change in ocean surface temperature may not seem like much, but over 200k sq.km, it is an enormous amount of energy storage.
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Hurricanes convert that heat into kinetic and potential energy.
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Climate change means they do it more often, and more vigorously.
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We need to face those facts:
There is no climate change denial in insurance premiums.