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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: "homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org" <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Homestead] Global warming article
  • Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:34:59 -0600

With Findings on Storms, Centrist Recasts Warming Debate

By CLAUDIA DREIFUS
Published: January 10, 2006

For decades, Kerry Emanuel, the meteorologist and hurricane specialist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was known as a cautious centrist on questions of global warming and hurricane ferocity.

Kerry Emanuel, a meteorologist and hurricane expert from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said warming had occurred "much too fast to ascribe to any natural process we know about."

Professor Emanuel asserted often that no firm link had been established between warming and the intensity and frequency of hurricanes.

But in August, two weeks before Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, Professor Emanuel wrote in the journal Nature that he had discovered statistical evidence that hurricanes were indeed affected by global warming. He linked the increased intensity of storms to the heating of the oceans.

"His paper has had a fantastic impact on the policy debate," said Stephen Schneider, a climatologist at Stanford. "Emanuel's this conservative, apolitical guy, and he's saying, 'Global warming is real.' "

On a recent visit to New York, Professor Emanuel, who is 50, said, "It's been quite a ride since the Nature article." He added, "But it's a really bad thing for a scientist to have an immovable, intractable position."

The rest of the story is at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/10/science/10conv.html?8hpib





  • [Homestead] Global warming article, Gene GeRue, 01/10/2006

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