"hypercanes"！！

地球温暖化とウォーターフロントへの人口移動が損害を拡大する！（フォーチュン誌）

KATRINA'S AFTERMATH
The High Cost Of Climate Change
To some researchers, Katrina looks like a harbinger of much more catastrophic weather to come.

　地球温暖化を言い立てるのは、欧州の米国への陰謀という説も流布していますが、米英の専門家は地球温暖化が"hypercanes"（超大型ハリケーン、だそうです）を増加させ、ウォーターフロントへの人口移動が被害を拡大させると警告しています。

To New Orleans residents, Hurricane Katrina must seem like an incredibly bad piece of meteorological luck that could only happen once in a lifetime. But to many climate researchers, it looks like a harbinger of things to come—with catastrophic regularity—as the world's atmosphere heats up.

In fact, less than a month before Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher Kerry Emanuel published a portentous paper in the journal Nature that illustrated how hurricanes' destructive potential has risen dramatically over the past few decades, in tandem with global warming. And a few weeks before Emanuel's paper, the Association of British Insurers issued an equally ominous report on the growing financial risks posed by extreme weather events due to global warming. It predicted that the U.S. may suffer losses from single hurricanes of up to $150 billion. (To put that in perspective, Hurricane Andrew racked up losses of about $30 billion when it slammed Florida and Louisiana in 1992.)　

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独断的コメント：

ニューヨークのWTCテロの被害が７兆円程度だったのに対し、"hypercanes"（わが国では”hyperphoon”とでも呼ぶべきでしょうか？）による被害は、１７兆円程度になると見積もられています。

海面温度の上昇は台風のエネルギーを増大させるそうで、その結果近年台風が大型化している理由と見られています。加えて、沿岸部への人口移動が被害を甚大なものにしつつあるそうです。

これに対し、政府はもちろん企業の対応もいまだ不十分です。真のリスクが高いのに、多くの当事者がリスクは低いと思っている状況では、金融機関としてリスク管理商品開発の余地は十分ありそうです。

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