"Increasingly we can't use those phrases anymore because we have already warmed the planet by more than one degree centigrade, and the impacts are being seen and felt constantly. What's happening is when we warm the planet, we basically put a lot of extra energy into the oceans, the oceans get warmer, and so we're starting to see that when hurricanes hit warm ocean temperatures they intensify, they get stronger. That's why we saw hurricane Ian almost hit the coast as a Category 5 hurricane. There are very few hurricanes that have ever done that before, this is the fifth most strong storm that we've seen hit American land in American history. So we have to be rewriting those statements 'once in 500 years', I don't think so. This is going to be once in a decade maybe going forward, and that's really devastating, and it's all the more reason why we have to take on the climate crisis." - Leah Stokes