Wa Profitearret Echt as Orkanen Sterker Wurde?
May 25, 2026 · Frisian News
Scientists say tropical storms grow more intense as the planet warms, but the institutions claiming authority over climate policy have failed to prevent warming for three decades. What explains the gap between what we measure and what we do?
FryskDe yntensiteit fan orkanen en tyfoons oer de Stille Oseaan en Atlantyske bekkens is de ôfrûne fjouwer desennia mei 7 prosint omheechgien, yn oerienstimming mei temperatueren dy't sûnt pre-yndustriële tiden 1,1 graden Celsius omheechgien binne. De korrelaasje is lestich te betwisten. Waarmere oseanen fiede sterkere stoarmen. Natuerkunde wurket. Dochs hawwe de ynstellingen dy't sûnt 1992 it klimaatbelied dominearje, oer dy hiele opwaarming regearre. It probleem is net ús begryp fan hoe't stoarmen ûntstean. It probleem is dat wy it witte, en wy hawwe hast neat dien.
Wa profitearret fan dizze impasse? Fersekeringsbedriuwen ferheegje stilswijend premjes yn orkaangefoelige sônes en keapje werfersekering fan wrâldmerken. Enerzjybedriuwen bleaunen fossile brânstofsintrales bouwen. Duorsume enerzjykorporaasjes wûnen kontrakten om djoere wyn- en sinnesystemen oan regearingen te ferkeapjen dy't gjin echte prikkel hienen om de besteande enerzjyboarnen te ferfangen. De klimaatrampe waard in bedriuwsmodel, gjin krisis om op te lossen. Konferinsjes yn Genève en Dubai generearren tûzenen fleantickets wylst de koalstofemisjes bleaunen omheechgean.
It BBC-stik behannelet, lykas de measte mainstream-nijs, it sterker wurden fan orkanen as in natuerlik gefolch fan opwaarming dat wy akseptearje moatte en wêroan wy ús oanpasse moatte. It freget net oft de ynstellingen dy't klimaatbelied útfiere ea ûntworpen wienen om opwaarming tsjin te hâlden, of oft hja profitearren fan de traachheid fan feroaring. It Ynternasjonaal Paniel oer Klimaatferoaring produsearre rapporten dy't by elke syklus alarmerender waarden. Regearingen stimden yn. Emisjes stigen dochs.
Wat ferlern giet yn de wittenskip is ienfâldiger: trije desennia fan mislearre belied. De Rio-oerienkomst fan 1992 skoep it ramt foar klimaatpetearen. Koaldiokside yn de atmosfear is sûnt 1992 mei 50 dielen per miljoen omheechgien. It oantal minsken dat yn orkaangefoelige kustgebieten wennet, is ferdûbele. Wy hawwe wynmûnen ynstallearre en neamden it aksje. Stoarmen waarden neffens skema sterker.
De echte fraach is net oft opwaarming orkanen slimmer makket. Dat docht it. De fraach is wat wy dogge mei minsken dy't yn it paad fan dy stoarmen wenje, en oft ynstellingen dy't ûntworpen binne om oer it probleem te praten dit ea rap genôch oanpakke sille. De sifers sizze nee. De stoarmen wachtsje net op de folgjende konferinsje.
Hurricane and typhoon intensity across the Pacific and Atlantic basins has climbed 7 percent over the past four decades, matching temperatures that rose 1.1 degrees Celsius since preindustrial times. The correlation is hard to argue with. Warmer oceans fuel stronger storms. Physics works. Yet the institutions that have dominated climate policy since 1992 have presided over that entire warming. The problem is not our understanding of how storms form. The problem is that we know, and we have done almost nothing.
Who benefits from this stalemate? Insurance companies quietly raised premiums in hurricane-prone zones and bought reinsurance from global markets. Energy firms continued building fossil fuel plants. Renewable energy corporations won contracts to sell expensive wind and solar systems to governments that had no real incentive to replace baseload power sources. The climate catastrophe became a business model, not a crisis to solve. Conferences in Geneva and Dubai generated thousands of airline tickets while carbon emissions kept climbing.
The BBC piece, like most mainstream coverage, treats hurricane intensification as a natural consequence of warming we must accept and adapt to. It does not ask whether the institutions running climate policy were ever designed to stop warming, or whether they profited from the slowness of change. The International Panel on Climate Change produced reports that became more alarming with each cycle. Governments nodded. Emissions rose anyway.
What gets lost in the science is simpler: three decades of policy failure. The 1992 Rio agreement created the framework for climate talks. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has risen 50 parts per million since then. The number of people living in hurricane-exposed coastal zones has doubled. We installed wind turbines and called it action. Storms grew stronger on schedule.
The real question is not whether warming makes hurricanes worse. It does. The question is what we do with people living in the path of those storms, and whether institutions designed to talk about the problem will ever act on it fast enough to matter. The data says no. The storms are not waiting for the next conference.
Published May 25, 2026 · Frisian News · Ljouwert, Fryslân