Kerry Emanuel Quotations

The temperature of the tropic oceans is warmer than it's been in 150 years

The hurricanes are following the tropical ocean temperature. The tropical ocean temperature is following the Northern Hemisphere. And it's very hard now to believe that there's anything natural about that.

It is tempting to ascribe Katrina, Rita and now Wilma to global warming effects, but I am not sure that would pass statistical muster.

As you warm the climate, you basically raise the speed limit on hurricanes

Hurricanes have killed more people worldwide in the last 50 years than any other natural cataclysm.

I will go out on a limb and say, eventually, we will accomplish this,

The large upward surge in hurricane damage in the US, is clearly owing to the confluence of rapidly increasing coastal population with a decadal time-scale upswing in Atlantic hurricane activity,

Unfortunately, in the issue of the frequency of storms, we're still kind of in the dark. We don't understand that issue very well.

My results suggest that future warming may lead to an upward trend in hurricanes' destructive potential.

This is the first time I have been convinced we are seeing a signal in the actual hurricane data.