Climate Quote by Kerry Emanuel Download Open image “As you warm the climate, you basically raise the speed limit on hurricanes” — Kerry Emanuel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Climate Climate change Hurricanes Limits Raises Speed Speed limits Warm
There is an emerging scientific consensus that global warming is making hurricanes more intense and more destructive. It turns out that Katrina fits into… — Johann Hari Copy Share Image
Hurricane seasons with four or more super-hurricanes, those with sustained wind speeds of 131 mph or more will soon become the norm. — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
I think as a kid I never really understood the magnitude of a hurricane and what it could do. — Marshall Faulk Copy Share Image
“Climate change is in the process of turning the most powerful category 5 hurricanes into future category 6 supermassive hurricanes.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
In reality, you don’t ever change the hurricane. You just learn how to stay out of its path. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
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… — Kerry Emanuel Copy Share Image
For a long time, the scientists have been telling us global warming increases the temperature of the top layer in the ocean, and that causes the average hurricane to become a lot stronger. So, the fact that the ocean temperatures did go up because of global warming, because of man-made global warming, starting around in the '70s, and then we… — Al Gore Copy Share
As Earth's climate changes, we can expect more destructive hurricanes. As sea level and surface temperatures rise, more solar energy is trapped in the… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
In a future that portends stronger and more-frequent hurricanes striking North America's Atlantic coast, ferocious winds will pummel tall, unsteady structures. Some will topple,… — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
If you've got to have a hurricane, this is the kind of hurricane you want to have. — John Williams Copy Share Image
Hurricanes are like women. When they come, they're wet and wild, but when they leave, they take your house and car — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Category 6 supermassive hurricanes will likely result from global warming.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
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… — Kerry Emanuel Copy Share Image
Hurricanes have killed more people worldwide in the last 50 years than any other natural cataclysm. — Kerry Emanuel Copy Share Image
The temperature of the tropic oceans is warmer than it's been in 150 years — Kerry Emanuel Copy Share Image
It is tempting to ascribe Katrina, Rita and now Wilma to global warming effects, but I am not sure that would pass statistical muster. — Kerry Emanuel Copy Share Image
In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
There are many more traits that the climate deniers share with the creationists and Holocaust deniers and others who distort the truth. — Donald R. Prothero Copy Share Image
I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with you completely… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River… — Roy Barnes Copy Share Image
Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis. — Lawrence Bender Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Once, as an experiment, I travelled around the world with a single suit. Before I left, I went to a tailor in Savile Row… — George Hamilton Copy Share Image
We're at a time when we are being presented with undeniable changes in the global climate and fundamental issues that affect every single one of us, and it's the time we're listening to the most hokey shite on the radio and watching vacuous bullshit celebrities being vacuous bullshit celebrities and desperately trying to forget about everything. Which is fine, you… — Thom Yorke Copy Share
I do not underestimate the difficulty of the challenge that global climate change presents to us. It will take a significant effort and the… — Federico Pena Copy Share Image
