From a non-profit think tank on climate change - The consensus among scientists is that the effects of climate change, such as rising sea levels and warmer oceans, made these recent storms far more destructive than they would have been in previous decades. In other words, climate change is not the cause of the storm, but it makes bad storms worse. And in the case of a really bad storm, climate change can make it totally disastrous or catastrophic.

It's not brain surgery. If the ice caps are melting, causing a rise in sea level, the chances for destructive storm surges and flooding greatly increase.