Sentences with phrase «increased hurricane damage»

It's important to understand that a body of peer - reviewed scientific literature, conducted by reputable scholars, has found no connection between climate change and increased hurricane damage.

That paper's projection of increased hurricane damage is consistent with numerous scientific studies that project increasing numbers of the most destructive hurricanes.»

GHG's have many impacts, increased hurricane damages being one among many.

Not exact matches

Rationale: Home Depot and Lowe's saw increased demand last year after Hurricane Irene, a relatively less damaging storm than Hurricane Sandy.

But there is something profoundly troubling about speculators in Puerto Rican debt reaping windfalls even as estimates of hurricane damage are revised up, tax reform legislation undermines Puerto Rican competitiveness, out - migration increases, political cleavages increase, layoffs from the public sector are set to increase and outside observers become more pessimistic about Puerto Rico's economic prospects.

«In conclusion, while we can not say climate change «caused» hurricane Harvey (that is an ill - posed question), we can say that it exacerbate several characteristics of the storm in a way that greatly increased the risk of damage and loss of life,» Mann wrote.

«Those needs have increased since Haiti suffered extensive damage during Hurricane Matthew last year, when hundreds of people were killed and thousands of families were displaced,» Clarke said.

The findings across three independent research papers show that human activity did increase the damage inflicted by Hurricane Harvey, said Michael Wehner, a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Thus, a homeowner will probably not be able to show that the hurricane that destroyed his house was spawned by global warming, but the state of Florida may well prove that increased damage to coastal property over several years has a lot to do with climate change.

Higher sea levels allow storm surge to penetrate farther inland, meaning flood damage will increase even if hurricanes do not get any stronger.

Living in a state with a high likelihood of tornadoes, lightning damage, and hurricanes along the coast increase your chances of having to file a claim, so it only makes sense to make sure you're adequately covered.

This demand was driven in part by the need for inspection, repair and salvage of damaged platforms and infrastructure following hurricanes Gustav and Ike, which passed through the Gulf of Mexico in the third quarter 2008, and increased domestic and international new construction activities, the capital budgets for many of which had already been committed prior to the end of 2008.

«Damages caused by doubling the strength of hurricanes would be massive and increasing dramatically.

The increase in hurricane damage due to increase in settlement does matter, because it means that the allowing people and policymakers to think GHGs are the only factor, would be a serious mistake.

How much have hurricane damages increased over the same period?

In the same National Geographic piece, Roger Pielke Jr. is broadly supportive and makes his standard comment that the increasing damages from hurricanes is mostly related to increased development rather than changes in intensity, but that obviously, future potential increases in intensity will be an additional factor.

While I agree with Roger Pielke, Jr. that settlement trends are the primary cause of increases in US hurricane damages, I do not agree that resettlement should be pursued «instead of» reduction of GHG emissions.

My reading of this statement is that you are saying that the likelihood that global warming is increasing the destructive potential of hurricanes (and is likely to do so increasingly in the future) is irrelevant to the policy debate about hurricane damage.

If current settlement trends continue, and a dramatic increase in hurricane preparedness does not occur, the fact that settlement trends are the dominant factor will mean that hurricane damages will most likely continue to increase even if GHG emissions are reduced to zero.

Try increasing the savings from hurricane damage in the future with every ppm of CO2 that is reduced on a yearly basis.

If we're considering the risk of hurricane damages, and not just overall basin activity, then the effect of increased vertical wind shear would seem to be (at least) twofold — it not only reduces potential intensity, but it also influences the steering of hurricanes (since hurricanes are basically steered by the background flow plus a beta drift).

While many studies of the effects of global warming on hurricanes predict an increase in various metrics of Atlantic basin - wide activity, it is less clear that this signal will emerge from background noise in measures of hurricane damage, which depend largely on rare, high - intensity landfalling events and are thus highly volatile compared to basin - wide storm metrics.

«How do you price the increased deaths, the losses of endangered species and unique habitats, the increased damages from hurricanes that are becoming more intense?»

Most likely we are already committed to at least some of these climate changes, and even if the models are wrong and these increased numbers of intense hurricanes fail to emerge in the future, Knutson and his colleagues believe that society still needs to work harder at minimizing the damage hurricanes cause.

As to the projected decline in hurricane damage as a fraction of GDP, an even casual reading of the relevant paper shows that while actual damage is predicted to increase in most places, GDP is forecast to go up even faster, so that the ratio declines.

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He cautioned, however, that burning oil and coal to drive our cars and heat our homes — which releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere — is not to blame for an increase in the damage done by hurricanes.

«It's important to recognize that [storm] damage is going to increase going forward, no matter what happens to sea - surface temperatures or hurricanes, as more people move to vulnerable locations on the coastline,» he said.

Telling quote: «We can not make a causal link between increase in greenhouse gases and the costs of damage associated with hurricanes, floods, and extreme weather phenomena.»

One of Pielke's main additions to larger climate debate has been participation in studies and workshops that have concluded, in his words, «We can not make a causal link between increase in greenhouse gases and the costs of damage associated with hurricanes, floods, and extreme weather phenomena.»

«While we can not say climate change «caused» Hurricane Harvey... we can say that it exacerbated several characteristics of the storm in a way that greatly increased the risk of damage and loss of life,» climate scientist Michael Mann wrote in The Guardian.

As a result, hurricane strength and damage are projected to continue increasing in a warming world.

Based on the increased risk of hurricane damages, we see CME's new futures and options contract to be a prominent instrument for mitigating risk» stated Dr. Thomas Nehrkorn, Director of Tropical Forecasting at AER.

I think you are saying that GW mitigation is irrelevant to hurricanes since hurricane damage will increase anyway, and adaptive development policies are needed anyway, even without climate change.

As climate change warms sea surfaces, the heat available to power hurricanes has increased, raising the limit for potential hurricane wind speed and with that an exponential increase in potential wind damage.

Scientists forecast that hurricane damage could increase dramatically in the US as high - income countries are also threatened by extreme weather events.

Not only is there more property and infrastructure to damage, but the average amount of personal belongings has also increased, i.e., the number of cars, TVs, and other items which can be damaged by hurricanes is much greater now than it would have been in the early 20th century.

When Pielke et al., 2008 «normalized» the reported damages for the 1926 Great Miami Hurricane to account for the increases in population, numbers of housing units and average wealth per person, they calculated that it would probably have cost about $ 150 billion damage if it struck in 2005.

That said, however, it shows how even if there is no trend in hurricane activity, we are still likely to see dramatic increases in the damage and destruction that hurricanes cause to us in the future.

Regardless of whether hurricanes and synoptic storms intensify with warming, sea level rise [22] and increased population and development [23] imply more flooding damage to coastal areas from storm surges.

As noted previously on this blog, when hurricane damages are adjusted («normalized») to account for changes in population, per capita income, and the consumer price index, there is no long - term trend such as might indicate an increase in hurricane frequency or power related to global climate change.

Regardless of whether hurricanes and synoptic storms intensify with warming, sea level rise and increased population and development imply more flooding damage to coastal areas from storm surges.

Climate models in 2005 estimated a 30 % increase in wind damage from hurricanes, and more / larger hurricanes.

The logic makes sense (increased SST's increase hurricane intensity which increases damages from any given storm), but logic is not the same as scientific evidence.

Warmer sea surface water can severely damage coral reefs, facilitate algal blooms, and together with warmer air temperature over the oceans, can increase the destructive potential of tropical cyclones and hurricanes.

Costs for just four categories of damage cited in the report were: Hurricane damages: $ 422 billion; Real estate losses: $ 360 billion; Increased energy costs: $ 141 billion; and Water Costs: $ 950 billion.

But there are two climate - related issues that we need to consider now: rising sea level (which is already affecting the magnitude of storm surges, which in practice do much of the damage in hurricanes and other coastal storms), and projections that the incidence of very intense hurricanes should increase in the 100 - year time scale.

GDP increase does not translate in any obvious way to damage increase; in fact, wealthier countries can better afford to build stronger structures and to protect assets (for example, build seawalls and pass and enforce building regulations).1 A grass hut will be completely destroyed by a hurricane, but a modern steel office building will only be partially damaged; damage does not scale linearly with the value of the asset.

Driven by changes in ocean circulation, the rapid sea level rise will bring increased risk of damage from hurricanes and winter storm surges, researchers say.

The kind of things I'm referring to are more frequent and intense heatwaves, flooding and droughts, sea level rise and its associated impacts, glacier melt, damage to sensitive ecosystems, increased tropical cyclone activity, increased hurricane strength, ocean acidification.