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This week, we’re publishing a conversation with author Porter Fox about his new book, Category Five, Superstorms and the Warming Oceans that Feed Them. There’s no denying it: Our oceans are warming, superstorms are intensifying, and it’s creating destruction on an alarming scale that’s only getting worse. It’s one of the most frightening aspects of the climate crisis and something that has been on full display in 2024.
In this conversation, we explore the threat of superstorms in an era of climate crisis. Fox highlights the financial costs of hurricanes, the disproportionate impact on vulnerable countries, and the conversations that he has had with climate scientists about the future of superstorm destruction that scare him the most. We explore why these storms are intensifying and how we lack the proper preparation to meet the growing crisis. Finally, Fox dives into the ocean's potential for carbon sequestration and why his personal connections to the climate crisis as a sailor has helped guide his work.
Porter Fox is a writer and author of books like The Last Winter and Northland. He writes and edits the award-winning literary travel writing journal Nowhere, teaches at Columbia University School of the Arts and is a MacDowell Fellow.
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