We have learned from the 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons that hurricanes are becoming more frequent and more severe. There's widespread agreement among scientists that we've entered into a cycle of more active hurricanes.
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Related If there's a La Nina around during hurricane season, the odds for more frequent and stronger hurrica... ED O'LENIC It is difficult to make any kind of an accurate prediction of how many of these will strike land, ..... CONRAD LAUTENBACHER Global data indicate a 30-year trend toward more frequent and intense hurricanes. NATIONAL CENTER This new grant will help us learn more from the hurricanes of 2004 and make our community stronger. BEN FISHBACK It is increasingly clear that global warming makes [hurricanes] more severe and destructive. Katrina... JOSEPH ROMM We are in a long-term cycle of some very busy hurricane seasons, and in particular, the number of ma... DR. CHRIS LANDSEA Florida citrus growers were devastated by the hurricanes of 2004 and 2005 due to tree damage and fru... JAY CLARK The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the busiest on record with a total of 27 named storms of whic... CHRIS VACCARO It's certainly reasonable to expect above-normal hurricane seasons for the next decade or perhaps ev... GERRY BELL Part of the problem is that insurance company management people are totally convinced we're in a hur... JACK HARDMAN We are absolutely getting more money than in previous hurricanes. MAURA DALY Hurricanes affect us terribly. If we have a bad hurricane season it'll take away from everything I d... BETSY GARRISON If you remember, fall of 2004 spiked high for us. We served as an evacuation site (during and after ... DANIELLE COURTENAY The consensus among hurricane researchers and forecasters is that the hurricane landfalls of 2004 re... HUGH WILLOUGHBY I certainly hope we don't see one, but I also realistically know that the way the hurricane seasons ... JOE THOMAS The problem existed before the hurricanes. But it appears that the hurricanes tipped it over the edg... IAN CALKINS The market is still fearing that we might see some more serious hurricanes down the road, FREDERIC LASSERRE that in the vast majority of hurricanes, other than those in Florida in 2004, complaints are rife th... BOB HUNTER Global warming creates volatility. I feel it when I'm flying. The storms are more volatile. We a... DEBBIE STABENOW These are low consumer confidence numbers, more than likely affected by the hurricanes and high pric... BARRY HYMAN Consumers are benefiting from the decline in retail gasoline prices and that should continue going f... DEAN MAKI The call volume has been higher and more steady than preceding some of the hurricanes we had last ye... BRAD DEAN Given the massive catastrophe losses absorbed by insurers in nine-months 2005, the increase in incom... GREGORY HEIDRICH Unfortunately, hurricane and severe weather experts are predicting another very active hurricane sea... GREGORY HEIDRICH From 1970 to 1995, there weren't that many hurricanes, and the ones we had were nice, well-mannered,... HUGH WILLOUGHBY All of the violations reported in 2005 have been closed and zero cases went to court in 2004. Since ... CHARLIE DUGGAN We've fought hurricanes before. You know, we think we are hurricane-smart and there's some normal th... KATHLEEN BLANCO Those people [living in coastal communities] should be concerned but there is absolutely a plan. In ... JARROD BERNSTEIN Hurricanes, tornadoes and volcanoes are all Natural Disasters. We can't fit Global Warming into that... VERONICA WHITE Scientists have known that hurricanes form above the world's warmest ocean surface waters. This stud... JAY FEIN Investors were cautious to begin with this year, and the hurricanes are causing them to second-guess... DAVID BRIGGS We have learned, for example, that the more virtuous a man is the more severe is his super-ego, and ... SIGMUND FREUD I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES What was the Republican answer to the hurricanes? More subsidies to the oil industry. JOHN DINGELL The irregularities and mismanagement that she described were clearly worse and more widespread that ... JOHN GOMERY You can't cancel because there's a hurricane coming. What we have seen though in the last two hurric... BILL SUTHERLAND With the effects of the Gulf Coast Hurricanes wearing off and fuel prices coming back down to more p... RAGHAVAN MAYUR It's going to take months to get some of these back. The problem is there are probably more hurrican... ASHOK SEKAR We felt they did pretty well. The 2005 hurricanes created a pretty bad scenario for the company. MATT NELLANS I have seen the cycle of a non-violent, mentally ill offender who is arrested repeatedly and put int... MIKE DEWINE It's even more urgent than it was in these other hurricanes or tsunamis. JAN EGELAND Classrooms keep getting set up more and more around the verbal and less around the kinesthetic and a... MICHAEL GURIAN The rate increase is necessary to protect our customers from losses arising from future storm season... RYAN PRIEST A handful of other long-time hurricane chasers have been doing this for years. And we were getting r... DAVID GOLD What is clear is that the damage caused by ever more severe and frequent weather events...ripples ac... KARINA LITVACK We have learned that all of Florida is vulnerable to hurricanes and stricter building codes that hav... SAM MILLER Cholera is even more severe among populations who are immunologically naive. CHRISTY TURLINGTON But it's becoming more unified. Now we see more diversity among entrants. DERICK VIRGIL While most of us are breathing a sigh of relief I want to remind residents that hurricane season doe... CARLOS ALVAREZ Hurricanes Floyd and Irene were cruel reminders that hurricanes can produce tragic loss of life and ... D. JAMES BAKER Did the fact that 2004 was so (relatively) easy to win the championship make Ferrari a little bit mo... VALENTINO ROSSI The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL It was very fortuitous for our moorings to be installed right in the path of Ivan. From theses measu... BILL TEAGUE I don't want to deal with any more hurricanes. I'd rather take an earthquake or a tornado, WILLIAM PHILLIPS Operationally and financially the company looks like it is on a steady footing now. It seems more an... JAMES HARPER In Florida, with its annual increases, and also with the hurricanes and booming construction and res... ALLEN DOUGLAS I have reminded him (Major) that there are some positive as well as some negative elements in the Da... ALIJA IZETBEGOVIC The bottom line is that we have entered an age when local communities need to invest in themselves. ... MICK CORNETT In 2004, with many hurricanes in Florida, I think we weren't quite prepared for the volume of calls ... DAVID MYERS Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters a... EARL BLUMENAUER While the fourth quarter may show signs of weakness, most firms are far enough into their fiscal yea... ALAN JOHNSON This hurricane season shattered records that have stood for decades-most named storms, most hurrican... CONRAD LAUTENBACHER The extensive water damage from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita created conditions that are ripe for mol... TROY ANDERSON It is notoriously true that the public mind is seriously agitated with apprehensions of negroes insu... THOMAS L. SMITH Where people work and their environment is becoming more and more important, especially for millenni... DARA KHOSROWSHAHI We are expecting a 6 percent increase in homes sold in 2005 over the number sold in 2004. And that m... GREG DYER We're noticing a trend of more severe eating disorders among African-American girls. GAYLE BROOKS I think the cycle going forward is going to be more muted, or modest. I think 2005 was a good reflec... ERIC CHEN Louisiana's performance in the wake of the hurricanes is impressive. Statewide results are receiving... JOE GREFF We have a lot of different schools coming from all over New England. Sport karate is becoming more a... MARK HUARD The hurdles for ISA Server 2004 were that you needed a local management infrastructure using Active ... JOEL SLOSS We happen to live in a catcher's mitt for hurricanes. I would still make all the preparations for a ... ERIC CHRISTENSEN This cycle has been repeating back to the Ice Age. It's related to changes in the ocean currents tha... HUGH WILLOUGHBY [Protecting the city from Category 4 and 5 hurricanes] would cost, at a minimum, many, many hundreds... JOHN HALL CRM is of increasing importance to retailers for several different reasons. There are no longer any ... JANET MURPHY I can put more energy into next season and future seasons without that worry of contracts. YAO MING She has been a pretty strong presence at the company for a long time, and was obviously a big driver... DOUG ARTHUR we believe that the impact of these hurricanes on pump prices will soon be behind us. As more refine... BILL GREEHEY The 1940s through the 1960s experienced an above-average number of major hurricanes, while the 1970s... MAX MAYFIELD It's a signal that the Internet and technology brands are becoming more interwoven into everyday lif... ALLEN ADAMSON Demons never die quietly, and a week ago the storm was a proper demon, sweeping through the Caribbea... CAITLíN R. KIERNAN We believe that Hurricane Isabel could negatively impact September sales by approximately 0.5 to 1.0... DANIEL BARRY There are so many more features and services now that (ease of operation) is becoming much more impo... KIRK PARSONS [Creighton University is touting its freshman class for 2005-06 as smarter, more active and more div... DON BISHOP We have unmistakable signs that households are becoming more cautious about spending. BERNARD BAUMOHL What we are now witnessing in the 21st century is the fracture or complete breakdown of families, so... LIZA LUGO What we are now witnessing in the 21st century is the fracture or complete breakdown of families, so... LIZA LUGO The general takeaway from our moonlighting is that Amazon is executing on its near-term and long-ter... JAMIE KIGGEN Weve got a lot more than a lot of people. IAN WILLIAMSON The year 2005 has been a year of extremes. We had extreme influences, such as hurricanes, on all thr... DAN MACK Category 4 and 5 storms are also making up a larger share of the total number of hurricanes. Categor... JUDITH CURRY I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER There's no improvisation here. Cuba has a plan to face hurricanes. The United States doesn't. It is ... JOSE RUBIERA Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating... LEON PANETTA We were in a tight market before all the hurricanes. And we won't be able to recover from the suppli... CHAD JONES Everyone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning a... DONELLA MEADOWS The venues are becoming more and more. ESTHER MINDLIN We have heard from many PUD customers that they prefer smaller, more frequent rate increases versus ... DAVE ANDREW This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical d... TIMOTHY GEITHNER Globally, our soul lessons have become more frequent and intense as we are called to evolve. EILEEN ANGLIN
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