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It is not surprising, then, that the reinsurer Swiss Re has conducted studies on mitigating the costly risks of hurricanes to coastal communities.
Yet natural disasters like storms, hurricanes, and tsunamis are becoming more common, owing to climate change, which will also cause a rise in ocean levels, making seaside reactors even more vulnerable.
More intense hurricanes, typhoons, and droughts are increasing the demand for military-assisted humanitarian responses, most notably in the Pacific.
Remember how, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Al Gore (and many others) claimed that we were in store for ever more devastating hurricanes?
While there is no scientific way to link a particular hurricane such as Katrina to the long-term trend – in the sense that Katrina might have been bad luck rather than a sign of manmade climate change – the energy of hurricanes throughout the world has been rising markedly.
He called for delays in reducing greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming, which in turn causes the energy of hurricanes to rise.
According to the underlying science that Bush ignores, hurricanes take their energy from the warmth of seawater.
That is why hurricanes occur in hot tropical regions, and at the end of the summer months, when the sea surface temperatures are at their annual maximum.
The frequency of hurricanes has not changed much, if at all.
The big changes are in hurricanes’ intensity and duration.
The biggest change, however, has been in the duration of hurricanes: how many days each hurricane lasts.
This means preparing for hurricanes that are more powerful in both intensity and duration.
An attentive national government would surely have realized that the Gulf region of the United States is more vulnerable to high-energy hurricanes.
It will make societies more resilient against floods and hurricanes.
Consider what the IPCC had to say about extreme weather events such as intense hurricanes.
Since the start of this decade, neither recession nor hurricanes nor sky-high oil prices have seemed to dent their appetites.
Despite scientific evidence demonstrating that the increased intensity and frequency of hurricanes is related to climate change, the Bush administration systematically rejects participation in international climate-protection regimes.
Because development-provoked erosion has brought the Gulf of Mexico 20 miles closer to land than it was in 1965, hurricanes are able to retain more strength, and their winds and waves pack more speed and destructive power.
Both the number and strength of hurricanes are most likely increasing as a result of rising sea-surface temperatures caused by man-made global warming.
Earth is set to warm further in the decades ahead, bringing more and bigger fires, mudslides, heat waves, droughts, and powerful hurricanes.
Carbon Pricing Takes OffBONN – The hurricanes that pummeled the Caribbean, Texas, and Florida this year left highways submerged, homes and businesses demolished, and lives lost.
Experts tell us that warming oceans are causing hurricanes to become more powerful, and other consequences of anthropogenic climate change – from severe droughts in the Horn of Africa to extreme flooding in Asia – are leaving millions without food and basic shelter.
On a scale that measures the accumulated cyclonic energy of hurricanes, this season is the first to have recorded three storms each rated above 40.
Employment figures show that the United States lost 33,000 jobs in September, which analysts attribute to the hurricanes.
We think of hurricanes as natural and irresistible events, so all we can do is reduce the loss of life and the damage they cause.
Climate scientists have therefore predicted more frequent and more damaging hurricanes.
Unlocking Climate FinanceWASHINGTON, DC – Record-strength hurricanes, submerged coastal cities, scorched dust bowls – these are the sort of apocalyptic images that are often used to illustrate the devastating consequences of climate change.
Damage due to hurricanes is relatively easy to observe and can't be blamed on human mistakes.
If summer hurricanes push huge quantities of oil onto Florida’s beaches and up the Eastern seaboard, the resulting political explosion will make the reaction to the financial crisis seem muted.
What’s worse, many governments are doing little to prepare for hurricanes, earthquakes, or floods.
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