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Hurricanes as big as Katrina will become 10 TIMES more frequent...

 
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Hurricanes as big as Katrina will become 10 TIMES more frequent...
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The new research suggests that even moderate climate change is likely to make such extreme storm surges as much as 10 times more frequent than they are today.
Since 1923, there has been a Katrina-magnitude storm surge roughly every 20 years.

Researchers calculated that with less than half a degree Celsius of global warming, this frequency would double.
A 1C rise produces a three to four-fold rate increase and if temperatures rise by 2C - the 'safe' limit for temperature change set by climate experts - extreme storm surges will become 10 times more common.

'This means there will be a Katrina magnitude storm surge every other year,' said Danish climate scientist Dr Aslak Grinsted, from the University of Copenhagen, who led the research.

Read more: [link to www.dailymail.co.uk]

wtfz??
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Re: Hurricanes as big as Katrina will become 10 TIMES more frequent...
She does a good impression of her husband.clappa



















for the article though.....
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Re: Hurricanes as big as Katrina will become 10 TIMES more frequent...
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Re: Hurricanes as big as Katrina will become 10 TIMES more frequent...
I seems that all the news agencies are running with this..
this is two hours old
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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]

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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?
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Re: Hurricanes as big as Katrina will become 10 TIMES more frequent...
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Re: Hurricanes as big as Katrina will become 10 TIMES more frequent...
I am not worried. Global Warming/Climate changes are liberal myths.
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Re: Hurricanes as big as Katrina will become 10 TIMES more frequent...
Here is another doomy article from USA Today:

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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]

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Best case = 5.2 degrees = Rut Row..

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Re: Hurricanes as big as Katrina will become 10 TIMES more frequent...
Here is another doomy article from USA Today:

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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]

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Best case = 5.2 degrees = Rut Row..

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