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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It was almost like .Ê.Ê. a diabolical storm.
almost
It was almost like . . . a diabolical storm.
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We could see that was going to happen about the time Katrina came off the west coast of Florida,
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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.
global hurricane
When you look at global hurricane activity, you really do see a trend. It's up everywhere.
data dealt problems
There are problems in the data to be sure, but they are problems that can be dealt with.
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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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The best way to put it is that storms are lasting longer at high intensity than they were 30 years ago.
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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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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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I will go out on a limb and say, eventually, we will accomplish this,
future lead results suggest trend warming
My results suggest that future warming may lead to an upward trend in hurricanes' destructive potential.
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The large upward surge in hurricane damage in the US, is clearly owing to the confluence of rapidly increasing coastal population with a decadal time-scale upswing in Atlantic hurricane activity,