Hurricane Ahead, But Lower Insurance

摘要

It has become conventional wisdom that America's coastal regions from Galveston, Tex., to Cape Cod, Mass., are at growing risk from megastorms like 2005's Hurricane Katrina. Global warming, the theory goes, will cause nastier hurricanes as ocean temperatures rise. On Apr. 3, meteorologists from Colorado State University predicted five intense Atlantic hurricanes in the storm season beginning on June 1, twice the long-term average.