« Alex Steffen interviews Cory Doctorow | Main | Steve O'Keefe's notes on our Authorviews interview » Global Warming and HurricanesSuspicions confirmed: global warming is making hurricanes "more ferocious," based on analysis of actual storms (rather than computer projections). [Link]"The total energy dissipated by hurricanes turns out to be well correlated with tropical sea surface temperatures," [climatologist Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology] said. "The large upswing in the past decade is unprecedented and probably reflects the effects of global warming .... The damage and casualties produced by more intense storms could increase considerably in the future," Emanuel said.Note: Scientific American has an article exploring the possibility of controlling hurricanes. jon posted this at 3:40 PM |
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The United States for too long has denied and then ignored the hazards of global warming. We will doubtlessly look for a small country to blame (or bomb) for all this disaster after the southern half of the nation is torn apart by a couple of category 5 hurricanes - and I'm sure I could get a testimony from those poor folks in Florida!
Posted by: John Abbott | July 31, 2005 4:23 PM