Is there a correlation between global warming and natural disasters e.g hurricane Katrina?

Question

If anyone could find me a graph with the weblink you got the graph from i would be very grateful

Answer 1

yes  ,this is what we are saying . global warming is a natural disastres like smoke, many place the forest were burn and produce over carbondioxide many factories continue smoking . on the future many northern factories may transferd to south pole at the same time  searching for the rich natural resores under WATO busines seystem then norther would be for resdinsail only

Answer 2

You simply can't relate long term and widespread global warming and short term localized weather events.  Weather is much more variable than climate.  So a "graph" of weather versus climate is not a reasonable scientific idea.

It is true that heat is what fuels storms.  As the planet warms, storms will generally get stronger in intensity.  Scientists agree about that.

http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM6avr07.pdf

Scientists disagree about whether there'll be more of them, with about equal numbers on either side.

To get some idea, look at this graph of  global temperature.  Jumps around a lot, because it's measuring weather.  1998 was an unusually hot year.  It takes the 5 year rolling average to get a good picture of what climate is doing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Instr...

By the way, this graph shows why the above graph is shaped like it is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Clima...

Answer 3

The warming isn't drastic enough to affect short term weather yet even though all the faithful will tell you so. We're at a peak in what seems to be about a 40 year cycle for hurricane intensity that last peaked in the late 60's. It has to do with oceans cooling and heating over this cycle which affects currents in the ocean.

And it's purely statistical. You'll note that the season after Katrina was a total bore. People will probably be blaming the price of toilet paper on global warming pretty soon. The media has hyped it and our poor school kids are being fed the doomsday message. It is definitely real but we're not going to barbecuing at the Antarctic next week. In fact over the last 5 years, the average temp there has dropped one degree.

Answer 4

Yes.

Low Pressure makes coming storms.

Global Warming makes bigger the Low Pressure Zones.

The Global Warming heats the sea.

So more warming, more storms in America and the rest of

the world.

I think since a couple of years ago, wheather has gone wild

and this year is going to be more disastrous than

previous ones.

The man has forgot GOD. The wheather is a mess right now.

Answer 5

Naturally people will tell you that there is. The reality is that climate change is both slow and subtle. Climate is in effect the total of weather variation over a very long time, the range of parameters and various statistical measures of temperature etc.. The theory (hypothesis strictly) is that since the heat accumulated each day needs to be returned to space somehow and the amount radiated out has dropped then convection currents must increase. But this is a day by day effect and if it works then there is no increase in global temperature.

Naturally only extreme weather events could be linked to global warming, not other natural disasters and unfortunately there is no real indication that these clusters of storms are anything new. It is next to impossible to detect changes in climate in the short term, only changes in weather patterns.

The trouble in admitting that global warming has occurred (at least up until1985) and it certainly appears to have since 1700; is that some people then say that that proves that man is responsible and that it will dramatically change the climate.

Now man may well have contributed to the various warming and cooling events that we have seen but not all of it and the links to climate are better than science fiction , just.

I could generate a graph but I would be just messing with your head, you would be surprised how much of that goes on.

Answer 6

Yes there is a co- relation between global warming and natural disasters,  One of the reasons where the Natural disasters will streak more efficiently then normal y when they occurs,

because , the weather get changed due to Global warming which leads to raise in temperature and by which the water level raises up and the sea water get more of cold water and - including this both hot and cold will effect more to a normal Hurricane and turns to be super Hurricane Katrina in near future.

Answer 7

No, and now respectable meteoroligist would make this claim.