in the Age of the Storm

I've heard few reports linking the recent disaster with global warning but I fear that we shall have to take on board that there is a human-made dimension to this. "Katrina's strength was certainly no surprise to climate scientists such as Kerry Emanuel or Kevin Trenberth, each of whom had published recent articles in top-notch journals arguing that greater hurricane intensity is the inevitable effect of global warming."

This will then be appearing in the actuarial calculations of insurance companies and so the cost of climate change will begin to be included in the costs of running households and businesses as well as health care. Unfortunately not in ways that will necessarily discourage the kinds of behaviour that contributes to making matters worse.