Friday, October 13, 2017

Warming Seas Could Lead to 70 Percent Increase in Hurricane-Related Financial Loss

A trailer in Marathon, Florida, the most populated island in the Florida Keys, was completely destroyed by Hurricane Irma. A new University of Vermont study projects that financial loss could increase more than 70 percent by 2100 if oceans warm at a rate forecast by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change under the panel's worst case scenario. (Credit: Zak Bennett) Click to Enlarge.
If oceans warm at a rate predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nation-sponsored group that assesses climate change research and issues periodic reports, expected financial losses caused by hurricanes could increase more than 70 percent by 2100, according to a study just published in the journal Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure.

 The finding is based on the panel's most severe potential climate change - and resulting increased sea surface temperature - scenario and is predicted at an 80 percent confidence level.

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