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History has shown that years of La Nina, such as 1998, are typically characterized by fierce hurricane activity in the Caribbean, exactly what occurred with Hurricane Mitch.
Rich countries are often eager to tell poor countries what to do: how to run national policies, how to reconstruct themselves after a hurricane or flood, even how to cut down on energy use in the poor countries.
But the rains that inundated the Texas coast for the better part of a week, and the hurricane that is about to hit South Florida, also raise deep questions about the United States’ economic system and politics.
In responding to the hurricane – and in funding some of the repair – everyone turns to government, just as they did in the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis.
These should have included stricter building codes, smarter evacuation policies, and better preservation of wetlands (which could have reduced the ferociousness of the hurricane).
We’ve seen record drought, spreading famine, and storms that are growing stronger with each passing hurricane season.”
Finally, it is simply wrong to say that storms are growing stronger every hurricane season.
Even for the Atlantic hurricane basin, which we tend to hear about the most, the total hurricane energy (ACE) as measured by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has declined by two-thirds since the record was set in 2005.
Gore quoted MIT hurricane researcher Kerry Emmanuel to support an alleged scientific consensus that global warming is making hurricanes much more damaging.
But Emmanuel has now published a new study showing that even in a dramatically warming world, hurricane frequency and intensity may not substantially rise during the next two centuries.
If Florida is devastated by a hurricane, its governor would only make matters worse if he responded by abandoning trade with other states.
Surviving the Next Housing-Market HurricaneKEY WEST – Biking along the beach here for a good sunrise view, my bicycle’s headlight illuminates signs for the hurricane evacuation route to Miami.
All along the hundred-mile archipelago, substantial hurricane protections are in place.
Like a hurricane, this disaster smashed into the financial system, which could not absorb the losses smoothly.
So regulators are constructing stronger buildings that can withstand a financial hurricane.
If, in the early twentieth century, only 50% of the archipelago’s infrastructure could withstand a hurricane, then, say, half the population would evacuate when a hurricane hit.
If the narrow escape route – until 1935 a railroad connection that was, in fact, destroyed by a hurricane – became overly congested, tragedy would ensue.
The quality of hurricane protection in the Florida Keys seems to be formidable.
Using classic economic valuations of everything from lost lives, bad health, and illiteracy to wetlands destruction and increased hurricane damage from global warming, the economists show how much each problem costs.
The Bush administration’s response to the hurricane confirmed the suspicion among blacks that, while they might send their boys to fight America’s wars, they had not only been left behind in America’s prosperity, but that there was neither understanding nor concern when they needed it most.
If all hurricanes had hit the US with today’s demographics, the biggest damage would have been caused not by Katrina, but by a hurricane in 1926.
But when Katrina made landfall, it was not a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane; it was a milder Category 3.In fact, there is no scientific consensus that global warming makes hurricanes more destructive, as he claims.
While Gore was campaigning for Kyoto in the 1990’s, a better use of resources would have been to bolster hurricane defenses.
We seem to accept that to be struck by an earthquake, a tidal wave, or a hurricane is just bad luck (unless, as the American evangelist Pat Robertson suggested after the Haitian earthquake, your ancestors made a pact with the devil in order to free themselves from colonial rule).
Good fortune and bad fortune alternate randomly, and the poorest people are particularly vulnerable when misfortune – like a hurricane in a fishing village – strikes.
Just as activists and the media engender fear by associating every fire, flood, and hurricane with climate change, they generate a false belief that there are simple solutions to the problem, if only politicians and the public would embrace them.
Hurricane Sandy and Climate ChangeATHENS, GEORGIA – In the waning weeks of the North American hurricane season – a time when a superstorm is not expected to cause widespread damage to the eastern coast of the United States – Hurricane Sandy is a grim reminder of the menace of extreme weather events.
With the lowest central pressure of the 2012 hurricane season, Sandy may have caused up to $20 billion in damages, making it one of the costliest superstorms in history.
In September 1938, before all of these advances, a hurricane devastated much of New England.
For, in a complicated economic system that feeds back on itself in many ways, events that start a vicious cycle might be as seemingly trivial as the proverbial butterfly in the Amazon, which, by flapping its wings, sets off a chain of events that eventually results in a far-away hurricane.
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