Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Hurricanes as big as Katrina will become 10 TIMES more frequent with just two degrees of global warming, study warns

Hurricanes as big as Katrina will become 10 TIMES more frequent with just two degrees of global warming, study warns | Mail Online: "Storm surges as devastating as those caused by Hurricane Katrina could happen 10 times more often if global temperatures rise by just two degrees, new research warns.

Devastating: A Red Cross truck sits flooded with other vehicles in front of a hotel just off Interstate 10 in Pascagoula, Mississippi, as Hurricane Katrina battered the area in August 2005

An estimated 1,836 people lost their lives and millions more were left homeless by the cyclone, the worst to ever hit the U.S., after it submerged New Orleans and other Gulf of Mexico communities in 2005."

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