The hurricane season

The Caribbean and the US are currently being threatened by a tightly packed series of hurricanes and tropical storms. New Orleans has just narrowly escaped a further catastrophe, but the current storms are still massing in the Gulf of Mexico.

A recently published paper in Nature by Professor Elsner concludes that warming oceans are driving stronger hurricanes. In a 2007 Nature paper he concluded that climate change was also increasing the frequency of hurricanes.

The recent hurricane even affected the Democratic Convention where one of the debating topics was the call for increased off shore oil drilling. Ironic in a week when the price of oil dropped significantly because the off shore drilling rigs already in operation in the Gulf of Mexico were spared damage by the hurricane.

Peak oil will cause dramatic oil price hikes - the increased frequency and intensity of hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico will cause the same phenomena