23 Quotes by Kerry Emanuel

I was skeptical that the increase (in hurricane intensity) would be sufficient to observe by now ... (but) the increase has been much more than we would have guessed.

I think we have a certain amount of climate change locked into the system. Even if we stop burning fossil fuel, the atmosphere and the ocean are going to take a while to respond. It's a very tough question for society. We're taking a gamble. We don't know all the global consequences.

I will go out on a limb and say, eventually, we will accomplish this,

My results suggest that future warming may lead to an upward trend in hurricanes' destructive potential.

There are problems in the data to be sure, but they are problems that can be dealt with.

When you look at global hurricane activity, you really do see a trend. It's up everywhere.

Unfortunately, in the issue of the frequency of storms, we're still kind of in the dark. We don't understand that issue very well.

We could see that was going to happen about the time Katrina came off the west coast of Florida,

It was almost like .Ê.Ê. a diabolical storm.