So not only do you have the economics of some of the most -- as the fishermen told the President -- some of the most important estuaries in our country, but you also have -- obviously these marshes represent the physical barrier that protects the greater part of Louisiana, particularly New Orleans, from bigger storms and hurricanes.
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Gray's team that year had predicted 17 named storms and nine hurricanes, five of them major.
The retirement of five storm names speaks to the severity of the 2005 hurricane season, which saw an unprecedented 27 named storms and 15 hurricanes.
In 2011, Klotzbach and Gray predicted 16 named storms and five major hurricanes.
There were actually 19 named storms and three major hurricanes.
But when the frequency of hurricanes and strong storms declines in a warming world, it defies common sense to claim that global warming is causing the increasingly rare hurricanes and strong storms that do still occur.
While hundreds of studies around the world have linked climate change to phenomena including the increased frequency and intensity of hurricanes and other storms, changing rainfall patterns, drought, coastal flooding, changing disease patterns and the migration of human populations.
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For the Atlantic Ocean, a normal season would produce 12 named storms, including six hurricanes and three major ones.
Warm water provides fuel for tropical storms to increase strength and become fierce hurricanes.
Never mind hurricanes and ice storms, this baby will be around after the apocalypse.
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One after another, hurricanes and tropical storms continue to drive out of the Atlantic over the weekend.
Sure, there will still be hurricanes and strong storms as the planet warms.
That compares to an average of 12 named storms, 6.5 hurricanes and three major hurricanes a year for the period of 1981-2010.
Forecasters predict an above-normal Atlantic hurricane season, with 13 to 20 named storms, seven to 11 hurricanes and three to six major hurricanes, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Prediction Center said.
In addition, forecasters predicted a below-normal Eastern Pacific hurricane season, with 11 to 16 named storms, including five to eight hurricanes and one to four major hurricanes.
This spirit got Louisiana through the hurricanes and this spirit will get our nation through the storms we face today.
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They forecast 10 named storms in the Atlantic Basin, of which only four will become hurricanes and two will become major hurricanes.
With our training we have been able to perform search and rescue for missing persons, provided rehab to firefighters working fires big and small, run shelters for persons displaced due to hurricanes, and even assisted with assessing damage due to tornadoes and severe storms.
And do not assume that the storms will miss your area just because maybe you've had a couple of hurricanes in recent years.
Vice Admiral CONRAD LAUTENBACHER (Administrator, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration): We are forecasting 13 to 17 named storms, of which 7 to 10 will become hurricanes.
Louisiana is still reeling from the devastating effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, but it also struggles with two major problems that existed long before the storms: an uneducated labor force and an unhealthy reputation for corruption.
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