‘Historic’ Category 5 Hurricane Beryl Offers Terrifying View of Future

As Hurricane Beryl barreled toward Jamaica on Tuesday after killing at least four people in the Caribbean’s Windward Islands, climate scientists warned the record-breaking Category 5 storm is a present-tense example of what’s to come on a rapidly heating planet. Even before the Atlantic hurricane season began on June 1, the U.S. National Oceanic and…