Posted
6/01/2009 05:35:00 PM
by Douglas
Headline: Hurricanes and Texas: Coastline hardest hit" Cover story on the latest issue of
Duh! Magazine.
Flooding and damage along the Texas Gulf Coast from major hurricanes is expected to be more severe in the coming years because of global warming, according to a study released today.
Ok, we get it, global warming blah blah blah, bad raising sea level, blah blah blah. Now, here are some numbers we pulled from
deep from our asses:
The study projected that rising sea levels and more intense hurricanes, due to global warming, will increase structural damage to homes and buildings from a major hurricane in Corpus Christi by 60 percent to 100 percent in about 20 years and by more than 250 percent by the 2080s.[emphasis added]
I'm sure there's a explanation that's as concise and interesting as Al Gore explaining fractional reserve banking, but what's the correlation between global warming and hurricane intensity/frequency? How can global warming cause floods
and droughts? Is it to blame for those itchy red bumps on my crotch? I should probably have that checked out.
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