SOCECOL E8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Hurricane Preparedness For New Orleans, Water Vapor, Emergency Operations Center
18 May 2016
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Earth"s running a fever, and scientists predict it"s going to get much worse: global sea level rose, arctic summer sea ice declined. Our planet becomes less reflective and warms even further. Clouds also reflects a lot of sunlight. Water vapor is the most abundant greenhouse gases, trapping warmth in the planet"s atmosphere. Atmospheric carbon dioxide is the second most abundant: evidence of human cause in global warming greenhouse gas, a major driver. Ivor van heerden: a slow-moving category 3 hurricane or larger will flood the city. There will be between 17 and 20 feet of standing water, and new orleans as we now know it will no longer exist. (october 29, 2004: hurricane expert at louisiana state university, since 2001, generated. Computer models of how a major storm could inundate new orleans . Described new orleans region, louisiana, as a terminally ill patient requiring major surgery who would be close to death .
