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Stronger hurricanes forecast for the next few decades could flood major cities including Miami and New Orleans : Environmental Scientists
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Aug. 13, 2006
Stronger hurricanes forecast for the next few decades could flood major cities including Miami and New Orleans, environmental scientists said Wednesday.
Storm surges -- walls of water up to 30 feet high pushed ashore by hurricanes -- could pose a higher risk to coastal areas than the threat of rising seas tied to global warming, scientists from the group Environmental Defense said.
More intense hurricanes -- some as strong as 2005's devastating Katrina -- are likely in the future, the scientists said, because global climate change could mean warmer sea surface temperatures, which fuel hurricanes'' development.
"There's been a lot of talk about the threat to coastal areas of sea level rise, and that is a very, very real issue ... but one that is going to unfold over a period of decades, if not a century," said Bill Chameides, Environmental Defense's chief scientist, in a telephone news conference.
"What we think will actually be a more immediate risk to coastal areas ... is the threat of storm surge, which is actually exacerbated by sea level rise due to these growing-intensity storms," Chameides said.
Using U.S. government data, the scientists created maps showing flood risk areas in Wilmington, North Carolina; Charleston, South Carolina, and Miami, based on projections of storm surges from hurricanes ranked as Category Three, Category Four and Category Five.
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Stronger hurricanes forecast for the next few decades could flood major cities including Miami and New Orleans : Environmental Scientists
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