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Liquid_Pestilence (OP) User ID: 26997671 United States 03/19/2013 12:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | this is two hours old <snip> Last year's devastating flooding in New York City from Hurricane Sandy was the city's largest storm surge on record. Though Hurricane Sandy was considered a 100-year-event — a storm that lashes a region only once a century — a new study finds global warming could bring similar destructive storm surges to the Gulf and East Coasts of the United States every other year before 2100. [link to www.wunderground.com] </snip> Imagine the devastation that would occur if every other year we had a Cat 5 hurricane with wind speeds of 175mph hit the United States. Katrina killed close to 2000 people and caused over 100 billion in property damage. What would happen if something that big hit NYC like sandy did? "Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance." Robert Green Ingersoll |
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Liquid_Pestilence (OP) User ID: 26997671 United States 03/19/2013 12:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here is another doomy article from USA Today: <snip> Storm surge is typically the biggest killer from hurricanes, and also usually causes the most destruction: Katrina killed more than 1,800 people and caused $125 billion in damage, mostly from storm surge, while Sandy last year killed dozens and caused at least $50 billion in damages. Grinsted's research shows that there will be a tenfold increase in frequency of storm surges if the climate becomes 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit warmer. "This means that there will be a 'Katrina' magnitude storm surge every other year," he says. One estimate from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows that, under one of the "best-case" scenarios, Earth's atmosphere's temperature will rise anywhere from 2.0 to 5.2 degrees by the end of the century. [link to www.usatoday.com] </snip> Best case = 5.2 degrees = Rut Row.. "Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance." Robert Green Ingersoll |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 11934995 Canada 03/19/2013 01:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here is another doomy article from USA Today: Quoting: Liquid_Pestilence <snip> Storm surge is typically the biggest killer from hurricanes, and also usually causes the most destruction: Katrina killed more than 1,800 people and caused $125 billion in damage, mostly from storm surge, while Sandy last year killed dozens and caused at least $50 billion in damages. Grinsted's research shows that there will be a tenfold increase in frequency of storm surges if the climate becomes 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit warmer. "This means that there will be a 'Katrina' magnitude storm surge every other year," he says. One estimate from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows that, under one of the "best-case" scenarios, Earth's atmosphere's temperature will rise anywhere from 2.0 to 5.2 degrees by the end of the century. [link to www.usatoday.com] </snip> Best case = 5.2 degrees = Rut Row.. :crybabyz: worrying |