“It feels kind of like if you’re driving in a car at 75 and you stick your head out the window. You’ve got that kind of an uncomfortable thing in your ears. Once you get up around 185, 200, the roar is like you’re inside a 747 jet engine. It’s extremely intense. You feel it in your gut.” Does the increase in hurricane strength we saw in Irma suggest that we need to introduce a category 6?

+ “Some 600 million Indians, about half the population, face high to extreme water scarcity conditions, with about 200,000 dying every year from inadequate access to safe water, according to the report. By 2030, it said, the country’s demand for water is likely to be twice the available supply.” NYT: Deadly Tensions Rise as India’s Water Supply Runs Dangerously Low.

+ Among fish, there are no climate change deniers. They’re on the move towards cooler waters. And Climate Change May Spark Global Fish Wars.