Chris Landsea Quotes (15 Quotes)

The global warming thing is a long-term issue to be concerned about, how that's changing things. To me, I'd be much more worried about a Katrina right now versus something in 10 or 20 years.

At this point, Rita has become a potentially very devastating Category 5 hurricane. Fortunately it's over the open ocean of the Gulf of Mexico, and will be over the open ocean for the next day. But we expect it to gradually make a turn to the north.

I think that this is very good science and a very important paper, but I don't think it settles every question.

That's not physically consistent with more intense storms, there's something fishy in that result.

In general, Florida gets hit a lot. But what we've seen the last two years should not continue.

But it will make it more problematic for the recovery efforts there.

It's almost certain it will make landfall as a major hurricane -- Category 3 or Category 4.

Most seasons we are going to get a hurricane hit the U.S. and probably more than half the time we will have a major hurricane hitting the U.S. as well.

The global warming impacts are so tiny today that they can't be measured although they might be measured in 100 years. Compared to the natural swings of hurricane activity and compared to the huge population increase and infrastructure build-up along the coast, any global warming effects are likely to be so tiny that they're lost in the noise.

I thought his analysis was interesting, but I think it's far from definitive.

With La Nina, you can expect not only more storms than average, but stronger storms, as well.

Back then forecasters didn't have satellites or even land-based radar. All they had were ships at sea.

Everyone wants to know what's going to happen this coming season, given the horrible impacts of the last two years.

The La Nina effect tends to change in the late spring. That makes it tough to make an accurate assessment about what influence it will be having in the peak of hurricane season in August and September.

The question is, is the increase in intensity real Are we seeing a big increase the last 15 years or is it an artifact of the data I'm afraid it's probably not a real change that's going on.