Kerry Emanuel
Kerry Emanuel
Kerry Andrew Emanuelis an American professor of meteorology currently working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. In particular he has specialized in atmospheric convection and the mechanisms acting to intensify hurricanes. He was named one of the Time 100 influential people of 2006. In 2007, he was elected as a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences...
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This isn't rocket science. If you look at the record of hurricane activity in the Atlantic going back 100 years, you see that there are periods of high activity and periods of low activity.
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I think we have a certain amount of climate change locked into the system. Even if we stop burning fossil fuel, the atmosphere and the ocean are going to take a while to respond. It's a very tough question for society. We're taking a gamble. We don't know all the global consequences.
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My results suggest that future warming may lead to an upward trend in hurricanes' destructive potential.
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The damage and casualties produced by more intense storms could increase considerably in the future.
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It was almost like .Ê.Ê. a diabolical storm.
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I was skeptical that the increase (in hurricane intensity) would be sufficient to observe by now ... (but) the increase has been much more than we would have guessed.
almost
It was almost like . . . a diabolical storm.
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This is the first time I have been convinced we are seeing a signal in the actual hurricane data.
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Unfortunately, in the issue of the frequency of storms, we're still kind of in the dark. We don't understand that issue very well.
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As you warm the climate, you basically raise the speed limit on hurricanes
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It is tempting to ascribe Katrina, Rita and now Wilma to global warming effects, but I am not sure that would pass statistical muster.
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Hurricanes have killed more people worldwide in the last 50 years than any other natural cataclysm.