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Rising ocean temps to make cyclones more catastrophic

07:51 am on 8 August 2023

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A climate scientist is warning rising ocean temperatures will make severe weather events such as cyclones more catastrophic.

GNS and NIWA say it's been 3 million years since the Earth experienced atmospheric levels of CO2 as high as we are today - however, this time our ocean surface temperatures are double what they were back then.

GNS Climate Scientist Georgia Grant spoke to Corin Dann.