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Extreme Weather Events: Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, 2005
The photographs in this series were taken three months after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and nearby Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.
According the PEW Center on Global Climate Change, "because hurricanes draw strength from heat in ocean surface waters, warming water should generate more powerful hurricanes, on average." This logical inference was recently supported by a study in the journal, Nature, which found that: "since the early 1950s, the average intensity of tropical storms has increased globally, and this trend correlates very well through time with the increase in average sea surface temperatures in the tropics...a powerful storm like Katrina makes sense in this context" (as summarized by the PEW Center)
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