In a recent Washington Post story, U. S. Air Force General Joseph L. Lengyel, said he believes the world’s climate is changing and becoming more severe—with storms becoming bigger, larger and more violent. Senior officials around the world have echoed this view, while a few continue to question whether climate change is a hoax.
Athena Masson is a graduate student in U of T Scarborough’s Environmental Science doctoral program studying Atlantic basin hurricanes with a focus on how these storms are classified.
She sat down with her doctoral supervisor, Professor William Gough, to talk about how her research might help us better understand these increasingly frequent and intense storms.