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Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Global warming: more stuff you already knew
Ho-hum. Those egg-head scientists are at it again, ruining our fantasies with inconvenient data points:
Most of the increase in ocean temperature that feeds more intense hurricanes is a result of human-induced global warming, says a study that one researcher says "closes the loop" between climate change and powerful storms like Katrina.
A series of studies over the past year or so have shown an increase in the power of hurricanes in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, a strengthening that storm experts say is tied to rising sea-surface temperatures.
And most of that temperature increase can be blamed on global warming caused by human activities such as automobile and industrial pollution, scientists report in Wednesday's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
I am not willing to say that global warming caused Katrina. The lede in the story above comes close to making that connection. A catastrophic hurricane was always going to hit New Orleans -- eventually. It was a mathematical certainty, which is why the lack of preparedness is all the more troubling.
Global warming will result in more frequent, more intense tropical storms and hurricanes. Scientists are predicting it. Insurance companies are preparing for it. Our government chooses to ignore it.
