Typhoons stronger than Katrina may hit Japan if global warming continues, researchers warn

Monday 07th September, 11:29 AM JST

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iraira at 05:01 PM JST - 7th September

Let's see.....2074...not to sound insensitive to the plight of future generations, but I'll be around 100 years old (assuming the cigs don't kill me first).
proxy at 05:09 PM JST - 7th September

I'm all for clean air and water but don't buy into all the "climate change" fear mongering. The climate has ALWAYS been changing and always will.
cadmium at 05:17 PM JST - 7th September

Just to put the windspeed in perspective: in Japan the windspeed is measured in m/s, 288 kph equals 80 m/s. Very strong typhoons have a windspeed of 50 m/s so 80 m/s is quite a bit stronger. No doubt more roofs would be damaged and windows smashed.
Molenir at 05:49 PM JST - 7th September

People do need to take global warming seriously. The attitude that this will impact future people but not us, is short sighted, selfish and self destructive for humanity.

I have a seriously hard time taking anything the gloom and doom eco nuts say about the environment seriously. They've been consistently wrong for so long, that when they come out with a study claiming something, you have to wonder if this time, this time might be the time they finally get something right. They're models consistantly fail, they're still pushing the global warming scare despite strong evidence that the earth is and has actually been cooling for the past 10 years. And to top it all off, they want to turn around and state that its all because of man.

This is the reality. The climate... it changes. Does that shock anyone? We know this, there have been ice ages in the past, warm periods, cold periods, the climate changes. So, the question is mankind causing the earth to heat up, must be compared against the fact that the earth is constantly changing. Now we do know that people have changed their environment, and that it can have moderately widespread impacts. Heat Island effect is a good example of this. And yet despite this, the environment hasn't had massive changes. The supposed pollution that we're releasing CO2, released naturally by every living thing on the planet... Sorry, at this point, unless they have real, solid evidence this time, its like the boy who cried wolf. The wolf still hasn't shown up, despite their cries. At the very least, they need to actually build a climate model that is moderately accurate.
Loki520 at 06:19 PM JST - 7th September

I'd be far more concerned if the climate wasn't changing.
zoechan at 07:00 PM JST - 7th September

Mexicanish: It's true though, global warming will have an affect on the weather... but whose to say that wasn't going to happen anyway? The earth was a lot warmer hundreds of thousands of years ago and it was also a LOT colder (ice age). We've been warming up since the ice age actually, and it was warmer still when the dinosaurs roamed the earth so it's probably just part of earth's natural cycle.

Great post.
Beelzebub at 07:20 PM JST - 7th September

The consequences of the greenhouse effect, etc. won't really matter because hey, when the oceans start boiling the human population will start dying off and practically nobody will be left to argue in blogs about who was right or wrong. Yes, the climate will get us all eventually, it's only a question of how soon, and whether or not we should, in our own small way, at least make humble efforts to postpone the inevitable.
sharky1 at 08:25 PM JST - 7th September

We've already been hit by storms more powerful than Katrina...Super Typhoon Bart hit Okinawa and winds are the ground were clocked up to 197 MPH. Much stronger than Katrina, but the islands are built for this kind of weather, unlike the the below sea level are that was hit by Katrina...What a scare mongering bunch of carp if I ever saw it...
Patrick Smash at 09:44 PM JST - 7th September

I wonder if one of our young Japanese readers will be blown off his roof in 2074 when this hits. Stranger things have happened.
888naff at 10:23 PM JST - 7th September

Molenir "I have a seriously hard time taking anything the gloom and doom eco nuts say about the environment seriously. They've been consistently wrong for so long,"

Have they always been so wrong? have any evidence?

what's your view on this?: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8236797.stm quite a rise in temperature in the last 100 industrilized years. Do we completely ignore that, everything will be fine if left uncontrolled. Is that right?

Obviously we will never know though as people are not ignoring that and governments are imposing stricter co2 limits,etc like Japan PM announced today.
Mark_McCracken at 10:27 PM JST - 7th September

Already happened.

On September 26, 1959, Typhoon Vera hit Japan as a Category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Vera had peak winds of 190 miles per hour.

Katrina was also a Category 5, though it hit land as a Category 3. Katrina's peak winds were 175 miles per hour.
ptolemy at 03:22 AM JST - 8th September

Personally, Mother Nature can do her best. I'll just sit popcorn and beer in hand and cheer her on. More air, food, and H2O for the rest of us. The sky is falling! Are you scared yet?
AdachikuMaster at 10:38 AM JST - 8th September

Sorry, at this point, unless they have real, solid evidence this time, its like the boy who cried wolf. The wolf still hasn't shown up, despite their cries. At the very least, they need to actually build a climate model that is moderately accurate.

Scientific had shown that it is real. Protect the future of your descendant my dear. Anyway even if it is not true as you said, it is not better to be cautious to avoid the worst?????
GJDailleult at 11:59 AM JST - 8th September

I love the "the climate is always changing, so climate change is bunk" comments. That is the same as saying that drunk driving should be legal because sober people crash their cars all the time. The fact that the same thing happens naturally is irrelevant, the point is that you are changing the natural condition and increasing the risk. Even if it were true that climate change is not happening it still would be a pointless and meaningless thing to say.
lunchmeat at 10:58 PM JST - 8th September

Is the worsening in the accuracy of weather forecasting due to climate change?