NYTimes: Air Pollution Can Mean More, or Fewer, Hurricanes. It Depends Where You Live.

[Greg Rau]

Lessons for SRM?:

Air Pollution Can Mean More, or Fewer, Hurricanes. It Depends Where You Live.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/11/climate/air-pollution-hurricanes.html?referringSource=articleShare

“ Over the past four decades, the new research shows, the decline in pollution in the form of tiny aerosol particles from transportation, energy production and industry in North America and Europe was responsible for the increased numbers of hurricanes and other tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic.

Over the same period, increasing pollution from the growing economies of India and China had the opposite effect, reducing hurricane activity in the Western North Pacific, the study found.”