Hurricane
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Nowadays, no
hurricane
or heat wave passes without a politician or activist claiming it as evidence of the need for a global climate deal, like the one that just got postponed until the end of the decade in Durban, South Africa.
Indeed, the IPCC observes that increased
hurricane
costs “have not been attributed to climate change.”
Thus, if we want to avoid future
hurricane
damage, we need to invest in adaptation.
Global warming will cause certain phenomena, such as heat waves and
hurricane
wind speeds, to become more extreme, while others, including cold waves and
hurricane
frequency, will become less so.
During the 2004
hurricane
season, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, both occupying the same island, provided a powerful lesson.
In the Dominican Republic, which has invested in
hurricane
shelters and emergency evacuation networks, the death toll was fewer than ten.
Iran certainly regarded the meeting as a propaganda opportunity, promising wide media coverage at a time when it was in the eye of a diplomatic
hurricane.
More than one million people are exposed to hunger and disease and, with the rain and
hurricane
seasons approaching, are vulnerable to further hazards.
Underinvesting in ResilienceNEW YORK – The
hurricane
on America’s eastern seaboard last week (which I experienced in lower Manhattan) adds to a growing collection of extreme weather events from which lessons should be drawn.
Based on new growth projections that are even more optimistic than those in the pre-Maria plan, the board assumes that the
hurricane
somehow provided a net positive shock to Puerto Rico.
Likewise, we all heard Al Gore talking about the dramatic
hurricane
years of 2004 and 2005, but we’ve heard almost nothing about the complete absence of
hurricane
damage in 2006 and 2007.
Last year, this settlement pattern severely exacerbated the impact of
Hurricane
Sandy – the second-costliest
hurricane
in US history.
The reason is simple: fire is not a creature nor a substance nor a geophysical event like a
hurricane
or an earthquake.
It also resurrected the unwarranted claim that global warming was to blame for such events, together with the morally irresponsible argument that we should help future
hurricane
victims by cutting CO2 emissions.
In its 2012 report on extreme weather, the IPCC said that it puts little trust in any attribution of hurricanes to global warming.The authors of one of the central Science papers for the UN’s
hurricane
estimates put it clearly: “It is premature to conclude that human activities … have already had a detectable impact on Atlantic
hurricane
activity.”
fact, the US has not seen a
hurricane
of Category 3 or higher since Wilma in 2005.
(Sandy, which was downgraded from a
hurricane
before it hit New York, was rebranded in the media as a “superstorm.”)While
Models show that the cost, by then, would be at least $40 trillion annually.Contrast this to what New York City is rightly concerned about: the 3.3% chance each year (entirely without global warming) that a Category 3
hurricane
will hit New York.
If we want to reduce
hurricane
damage, should we focus primarily on a very cheap solution that would enable us to handle storm surges much better within a few years, or on an incredibly expensive solution that would require almost a hundred years to avoid nine millimeters of 7.5-meter surges?The morally defensible answer is clear, and it has nothing to do with immediate reductions in CO2 emissions.
The authors of one of the central Science papers for the UN’s
hurricane
estimates put it clearly: “It is premature to conclude that human activities … have already had a detectable impact on Atlantic
hurricane
activity.”
In fact, the US has not seen a
hurricane
of Category 3 or higher since Wilma in 2005.
(Sandy, which was downgraded from a
hurricane
before it hit New York, was rebranded in the media as a “superstorm.”)
Contrast this to what New York City is rightly concerned about: the 3.3% chance each year (entirely without global warming) that a Category 3
hurricane
will hit New York.
If we want to reduce
hurricane
damage, should we focus primarily on a very cheap solution that would enable us to handle storm surges much better within a few years, or on an incredibly expensive solution that would require almost a hundred years to avoid nine millimeters of 7.5-meter surges?
The food issue emerged for the first time as a major theme at the July 2009 summit in L’Aquila, Italy, as a response to a commodity boom that was beginning to falter, but that has since reemerged with the force of a
hurricane.
But every dollar spent to protect mangroves and coral reefs saved $20 in future
hurricane
losses.
When
hurricane
Katrina struck America’s Gulf Coast, that incompetence proved fatal.
It is also less certain now that humans have caused
hurricane
and drought events since 1950.
We have seen photographs of
hurricane
and typhoon activity due to global warming, affecting people in Louisiana or Myanmar.
Since then,
hurricane
incidence has dropped off the charts; indeed, by one measure, global accumulated cyclone energy has decreased to its lowest levels since the late 1970’s.
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