Kerry Emanuel

Kerry Emanuel (* April 21, 1955 ) is an American professor of meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge (Massachusetts ).

Emanuel is a specialist in atmospheric convection and the mechanisms of reinforcement of hurricanes. He coined in 1994 the term " Hyperkan ". In 2007 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Time Magazine declared him in 2006 among the 100 most influential people.

2013 called for Emanuel in an open letter together with colleagues Ken Caldeira, James E. Hansen, and Tom Wigley, a " return to nuclear power " because the resistance against nuclear power plants polluting the fight against climate change. The scientists appealed to world leaders and environmental organizations to work for the development of safe nuclear power plants. "There is no realistic way to stabilize the climate, which does not require a substantial share of nuclear energy ," the researchers wrote in their letter. However, the risks of nuclear energy are " orders of magnitude smaller " than the dangers arising from the use of fossil fuels. In the debate on the future energy policy should decide facts, not emotions, calling him and his colleagues.

Publications (selection)

• Emanuel, KA: Atmospheric Convection, Oxford University Press. 1994, ISBN 0-19-506630-8.
• Emanuel, KA: Divine Wind: The History And Science Of Hurricanes. 2005, ISBN 0-19-514941-6.
• Emanuel, KA: Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years. In: Nature., 2005.
• Emanuel, KA: Phaeton 's Reins - The human hand in climate change. Boston Review. , 2007.
• Emanuel, KA: What We Know About Climate Change, The MIT Press and Boston Review. 2007, ISBN 978-0-262-05089-0.
• Emanuel, KA: Hurricanes and Global Warming: Results from Downscaling IPCC AR4 Simulations. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society., 2008.