At a meeting of the UN climate science panel in Montreal, Caribbean scientists – some of whom couldn’t make it to Canada because of Hurricane Irma – are urging a focus on extreme weather damage.
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| Irma as it strengthened to a category 5 hurricane on Tuesday. |
Irma has astonished meteorologists with its intensity, maintaining top wind speeds of 185m/h (300km/h) for a world record 37 hours. Outer islanders surveyed the devastation on Friday as Cuba, the Bahamas and Florida prepared to be hit next.
Three thousand kilometres north, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is laying down the outline of its next comprehensive report on the state of climate science, due out in 2021-22. National representatives will decide how to assess loss and damage caused by climate change.
Arthur Rolle, the national representative for the Bahamas, told Climate Home by email from Montreal he had considered staying at home. “My fears for my home is that it will be tested for the first time with a hurricane of strength in excess of 140 miles per hour [225kmph],” he said. Most of his friends and family lived in flood-prone, low-lying areas, he added.
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