"The global warming impacts are so tiny today that they can't be measured although they might be measured in 100 years," Landsea said. "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."
RAZD writes:
I found the comment from Landsea on "the huge population increase and infrastructure build-up along the coast" to be totally bizarre in relating this to global warming effects, and I'm still trying to figure out how doubling (say) the numbers of people on the coast would affect global warming more than their living anywhere else.
I believe what he is trying to say is that Global warming would not be quite as
noticable if were not for the increase in human populations and their living on the coast. If there was only a small population living on the coast, much of the effects of GW would be hard to see. People only notice when their houses get washed away, not when say, a hurricane strikes an unpopulated coast. The economic and human cost makes the effects more noticable.
At least that is how I read it. I don't agree with his implications of a negligable shift in climate, though. *shrug*
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