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You’ve said global warming is
causing increasingly more intense hurricanes. Do you think this
is the climate change effect that people should be most concerned
with? - Melissa R. Posted on 02/20/2006 at
17:04 (
1)
Response - Dr. Emanuel
Posted on 02/22/2006 at 06:39 (
0)
We’ve learned that Earth works
as a planetary system, with interconnected spheres. What global
effects do hurricanes have, and what role do they play on Earth’s
systems, like the biosphere, the hydrosphere, the geosphere, plate
tectonics? - Carolyn V., Melissa R. Posted
on 02/20/2006 at 17:02 (
1)
Reponse - Dr. Emanuel
Posted on 02/22/2006 at 06:44 (
0)
How can we use your intelligence
about hurricanes to alter the future and stop global warming or
help society? - Kat L. Posted on 02/20/2006
at 17:01 (
2)
Response - Kerry Emanuel
Posted on 02/25/2006 at 11:57 (
0)
Could more intense hurricanes
affect ocean currents or global air circulation and if so, in
what ways? - Anonymous Posted on 02/20/2006
at 17:01 (
2)
Response - Dr. Emanuel
Posted on 02/25/2006 at 12:11 (
0)
If ocean currents were to slow,
like the Gulf Stream or the global thermohaline circulation, how
would this affect hurricanes in the Atlantic? - Anonymous
Posted on 02/20/2006 at 17:01 (
1)
Response - Dr. Emanuel
Posted on 02/25/2006 at 12:14 (
0)
In just a few words of your
own, what is a hurricane? - KatL. Posted on
02/20/2006 at 17:00 (
1)
Response - Dr. Emanuel
Posted on 02/25/2006 at 12:16 (
0)
Why are the arguments made by
climatologists about the connections between global warming and
hurricane activity so combative? Are scientists reluctant to admit
this as a valid factor, or is it just in the nature of scientists
to examine every area of each other’s facts? - Katie K.
Posted on 02/20/2006 at 16:59 (
1)
Response - Dr. Emanuel
Posted on 02/25/2006 at 12:19 (
0)
If the polar ice caps are melting
and releasing lots of fresh water that could affect ocean currents,
would that affect the formation of hurricanes? - Shimena
L. Posted on 02/20/2006 at 16:50 (
1)
Response - Dr. Emanuel
Posted on 02/25/2006 at 12:20 (
0)
What first got you excited to
become a scientist? - PZ Posted on 02/20/2006
at 16:50 (
1)
Response - Dr. Emanuel
Posted on 02/25/2006 at 12:22 (
0)
What is the most discouraging
thing that your research has uncovered? - PZ
Posted on 02/20/2006 at 16:49 (
1)
Response - Dr. Emanuel
Posted on 02/25/2006 at 12:29 (
0)
What is your main drive to keep
researching Hurricanes? - Anonymous Posted on
02/20/2006 at 16:48 (
1)
Response - Dr. Emanuel
Posted on 02/25/2006 at 12:30 (
0)
When you realized that climate
change was affecting hurricanes did it make you more conscious
of your personal emissions, or lead to any changes in your fossil
fuel consumption for example? - Melissa R. Posted
on 02/20/2006 at 16:48 (
1)
Response
- Dr. Emanuel Posted on 02/25/2006 at 12:31
(
0)
Can you measure hurricanes in
the past as far back as million of years or more? How and how
far back? Do they leave fingerprints like ice ages do? Were there
hurricanes during the partial ice ages? - Kat L., Katie
K., Rachel S, Abby A. Caroline D. Posted on 02/20/2006
at 16:47 (
1)
Response - Dr. Emanuel
Posted on 02/25/2006 at 12:34 (
0)
You say there’s no evidence
of more frequent hurricanes so far, just more intense storms.
Why aren’t there more hurricanes with global warming since global
warming creates the conditions that are right for their formation?
- Lisa H; Megan W. Posted on 02/20/2006 at
16:46 (
1)
Response - Dr. Emanuel
Posted on 02/25/2006 at 12:35 (
0)
Global computer models seem
so contradictory and sensitive to small changes in assumptions;
how reliable are they in your mind and why should we believe what
they show? - Anonymous Posted on 02/20/2006
at 16:46 (
1)
Response - Dr. Emanuel
Posted on 02/25/2006 at 12:36 (
0)
What causes the natural cycle
that has been bringing the intense hurricanes to the Caribbean
and the U.S. - Fanni T. Posted on 02/20/2006
at 16:45 (
1)
Response - Dr. Emanuel
Posted on 02/25/2006 at 12:38 (
0)
How is the physical nature of
hurricanes changing to become more intense? - Abhinov
K. Posted on 02/20/2006 at 16:45 (
1)
Response - Dr. Emanuel
Posted on 02/25/2006 at 12:40 (
0)
What would hurricanes have been
like during dinosaur times when carbon dioxide levels were really
high? - Anonymous Posted on 02/20/2006 at 16:44
(
1)
Response - Dr. Emanuel
Posted on 02/25/2006 at 12:41 (
0)
If global warming is increasing
sea surface temperatures that fuel hurricanes, will there be more
storms at more Northern latitudes? - Julia, Caroline D,
Phillip Z. Posted on 02/20/2006 at 16:44 (
1)
Response - Dr. Emanuel
Posted on 02/25/2006 at 12:42 (
0)
Why is our understanding of
the physics of controlling water vapor in the atmosphere so poor?
- Abhinov Posted on 02/20/2006 at 16:34 (
1)
Response - Dr. Emanuel
Posted on 02/25/2006 at 12:43 (
0)
How warm have oceans become
as a result of global warming and how much warmer do scientists
predict they will become? - Lindsey O. Posted
on 02/20/2006 at 16:33 (
1)
Response - Dr. Emanuel
Posted on 02/25/2006 at 12:44 (
0)
If scientists are trying to
control hurricanes, what possible negative consequences might
these have on Earth? - Eva L., Hadley B. Posted
on 02/20/2006 at 16:32 (
1)
Response - Dr. Emanuel
Posted on 02/25/2006 at 12:45 (
0)
How well accepted is your power
dissipation index? - Anonymous Posted on 02/20/2006
at 16:32 (
1)
Response - Dr. Emanuel
Posted on 02/25/2006 at 12:47 (
0)
How bad could future hurricanes
become? - Anonymous; Kate D. Posted on 02/20/2006
at 16:17 (
1)
Response - Dr. Emanuel
Posted on 02/25/2006 at 12:48 (
0)
What is the atmosphere so sensitive
to tiny influences? - Anonymous Posted on 02/20/2006
at 16:16 (
1)
Response - Dr. Emanuel
Posted on 02/25/2006 at 12:49 (
0)
If not global warming, what
other factors could increase the yearly number of hurricanes?
- Maddie R, Alyssa C Posted on 02/20/2006 at
16:16 (
1)
Response - Dr. Emanuel
Posted on 02/25/2006 at 12:50 (
0)
How do more greenhouse gases
in the atmosphere make more energy available to hurricanes?
- Lisa H. Posted on 02/20/2006 at 16:14 (
1)
Response - Dr. Emanuel
Posted on 02/25/2006 at 12:51 (
0)
Since hurricanes need warm ocean
water, is Earth the only planet or moon in the solar system that
experiences hurricanes? - Jake L, Hadley B.
Posted on 02/20/2006 at 16:14 (
1)
Response - Dr. Emanuel
Posted on 02/25/2006 at 12:52 (
0)
Why is hurricane intensity so
hard to calculate? - Jeremy H. Posted on 02/20/2006
at 16:11 (
1)
Response - Dr. Emanuel
Posted on 02/25/2006 at 12:53 (
0)
Would changes in the chemical
content of oceans affect hurricanes and their formation?
- Carolyn V. Posted on 02/20/2006 at 16:10 (
1)
Response - Dr. Emanuel
Posted on 02/25/2006 at 12:54 (
0)
Are there positive affects of
hurricanes? - Anonymous Posted on 02/20/2006
at 16:08 (
2)
Response - Dr. Emanuel
Posted on 02/25/2006 at 12:55 (
1)
Can the energy of hurricanes
be harnessed and put to use? - Anonymous Posted
on 02/20/2006 at 16:08 (
1)
Response - Dr. Emanuel
Posted on 02/25/2006 at 13:01 (
0)
What role do clouds play in
hurricane formation? - Meghan C. Posted on
02/20/2006 at 16:05 (
0)
What are decisions people should
make in living near the coastal areas prone to hurricanes?
- Kate L. Posted on 02/20/2006 at 16:03 (
0)
What made you want to study
hurricanes or what got you interested? - Chris O.
Posted on 02/20/2006 at 16:02 (
0)
If we don't do something to
stop global warming, could Massachusetts have many more hurricanes
and could other states that rarely get hurricanes get many more
hurricanes? - Chris O., Julia M., Caroline D.
Posted on 02/20/2006 at 16:01 (
0)
What did your family/friends
think when you said you wanted to become a scientist? - Phillip
Z. Posted on 02/20/2006 at 16:01 (
0)
If everyone in the entire world
right now started living much better and (cut emissions) to stop
global warming, would the environment get immediately better,
or would it take a really long time? - Chris O
Posted on 02/20/2006 at 16:00 (
0)
If water at higher latitudes
continues to get warmer, how would this affect the distribution
of hurricanes? - Anonymous Posted on 02/20/2006
at 15:59 (
0)
If sea level rises, the Gulf
of Mexico enlarges, and more of the North American land mass is
under water, would hurricanes that hit be more powerful, or would
they be blown out to sea first? - Anonymous
Posted on 02/20/2006 at 15:56 (
0)
Is there anything that can be
done to measure hurricane activity from earth’s early history,
dating back not a few thousand years but maybe even millions of
years? - Katie K. Posted on 02/20/2006 at 15:56
(
0)
What was your first "Dream
Job"? - Anonymous Posted on 02/20/2006
at 15:55 (
0)
If today's youths are the ones
who need to be educated now on future environmental issues, how
can kids help scientists share what they learn? - Anonymous
Posted on 02/20/2006 at 15:53 (
0)
What is thermodynamic disequilibrium
(between tropical oceans and the atmosphere) and why does it affect
a hurricanes intensity? - Alyssa C., Abhinov
Posted on 02/20/2006 at 15:53 (
0)
What is vertical wind sheer,
what causes it, and what affects it? - Anonymous
Posted on 02/20/2006 at 15:51 (
0)
What are best areas for studying
hurricane records in stalactites? - Fanni T.
Posted on 02/20/2006 at 15:50 (
0)
Where can the best kept record
of hurricanes in ocean sediments be found? - Fanni, Julia,
Katie Posted on 02/20/2006 at 15:50 (
0)
Is it possible to still predict
future trends of hurricanes when there seems to be no evidence
of any trends now? If so how is this possible? If not why not?
- Rachel S. Posted on 02/20/2006 at 15:49 (
0)
Why are so few scientists working
on hurricanes and climate change? Isn’t this considered important?
- Anonymous Posted on 02/20/2006 at 15:48 (
0)
Are there scientists who believe
global warming has not contributed to hurricane intensity in the
past, but who predict that it will contribute as the earth heats
up more? - Alyssa C. Posted on 02/20/2006 at
15:48 (
0)
How do phenomena such as El
Nino and the North Atlantic Oscillation affect swings in the total
number of hurricanes? - Lisa H. Posted on 02/20/2006
at 15:47 (
0)
How does heat -- or “latent
heat” -- power a hurricane? - Lisa H. Posted
on 02/20/2006 at 15:35 (
0)
What is the relationship between
hurricane’s wind speed and rainfall? - Anonymous
Posted on 02/20/2006 at 15:34 (
0)
Why is sea surface temperature
data more carefully measured than wind speeds? - Anonymous
Posted on 02/20/2006 at 15:34 (
0)
Why will there be fewer hurricanes
by 2022 if water temperature keeps rising? - Christina
G. Posted on 02/20/2006 at 12:47 (
0)
Where else can you look (other
than tree rings) to collect data that might indicate changes in
hurricane intensity or frequency over time? - Maddie R
and Kate K. Posted on 02/20/2006 at 12:46 (
0)
Why isn’t there a very good
record of past hurricanes? - Anonymous Posted
on 02/20/2006 at 12:45 (
0)
How accurate are the models
used to predict various outcomes? - Alyssa C.
Posted on 02/20/2006 at 12:45 (
0)
What other issues with sea level
change and ocean heat could arise for how the planet works?
- Anonymous Posted on 02/20/2006 at 12:44 (
0)
Are the aspects of the hurricanes
(behavior) on computer (models) realistic? Could they actually
behave that way? - Eva L. Posted on 02/20/2006
at 12:39 (
0)
Does warmer water mean more
northern hurricanes? - Phillip Z. Posted on
02/20/2006 at 12:39 (
0)
What does a climatologist do
and what do you do? - Abby A. Posted on 02/20/2006
at 12:38 (
0)
If La Nina results in lower
ocean temperatures, why is it predicted that there will be more
hurricanes affecting the U.S.? - Carolyn V.
Posted on 02/20/2006 at 12:38 (
0)
If global warming increases
hurricane intensity, will there by category 6 storms? How bad
can they become? - Anonymous Posted on 02/20/2006
at 12:37 (
0)
What affect do hurricanes have
on the ocean? - Anonymous Posted on 02/20/2006
at 12:36 (
0)
How does atmosphere and ocean
systems work together to create a hurricane? - Anonymous
Posted on 02/20/2006 at 12:36 (
0)
If global warming continues,
why will there be more intense hurricanes but fewer smaller ones?
- Anonymous Posted on 02/20/2006 at 12:35 (
0)
Does the temperature and movement
of all ocean layers affect hurricanes, or just the top layer since
it provides the water vapor? - Melissa R. Posted
on 02/20/2006 at 12:35 (
0)
Why did Katrina gain all its
power in the Gulf of Mexico? - Kate L. Posted
on 02/20/2006 at 12:34 (
0)
70) What causes hurricanes to
build up power from ocean moisture and heat? - Anonymous
Posted on 02/20/2006 at 12:33 (
0)
What are the Europeans doing
to stop global warming? - Anonymous Posted on
02/20/2006 at 12:33 (
0)
How much of a role does El Nino
play in the frequency of hurricanes? - Anonymous
Posted on 02/20/2006 at 12:22 (
0)
Do you believe global warming
is causing El Ninos to be more frequent and longer lasting?
- Anonymous Posted on 02/20/2006 at 12:20 (
0)
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