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Climate Crossroads Blog
Global Warming Meets Gulf Oil
Posted by:
Paul Rauber on
June 4, 2010 at
11:20AM PST
The 2010 hurricane season has officially begun, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting it to be a wild one. “This season could be one of the more active on record,” said NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco. Her agency project 14 to 23 named storms, 8 to 14 hurricanes, and 3 to 7 major hurricanes--all in an area increasingly contaminated with oil.
One of the major reasons for NOAA’s high projection is what the National Weather Service calls “exceptionally warm sea surface temperatures in the tropical Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea.” While those high temperatures can not be conclusively linked to global warming, they are predicted by it. Here’s the satellite view from NASA’s Earth Observatory. 
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