The Ravages of Hurricane Katrina and the Global Warming Connection

[kerrygoddess]

The Ravages of Hurricane Katrina and the Global Warming Connection
August 30th, 2005

The full measure of damage caused by Hurricane Katrina may not be known for days. AP News has a list of the effects known to date, here.

Rescue efforts are still underway in most areas. Los Angeles County Fire Department’s swift-water rescue team left L.A. early this morning to join the rescue efforts, as worn out National Guard units “strained by long overseas deployments” and volunteers from across the country scramble to get to the hurricane ravaged area.

Last night I posted, Katrina’s Real Name — Global Warming, about an OP/ED by Global Warming author Ross Gelbspan. A reader pointed me to Salon’s, Katrina’s destructive waves, noting that Kerry Emanuel, a professor of atmospheric science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, cited “the destruction of Katrina is due to the combination of normal hurricane cycles and massive development in hurricane-prone areas, not global warming.”

I thoroughly agree with my reader’s point about “the destruction of Katrina” being attributed “to massive development in hurricane-prone areas”, however, what my reader failed to note is that Emanuel also notes that atmospheric warming “fuels the intensity of hurricanes.”

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[Halliburton]

1. hurricanes like katrina are going to be all the more common

because of the warmer waters.