[asa] Hurricanes and global warming

What will the global warming deniers have to say about yet another
data point undermining their position?

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/hurricane/2007-07-29-more-hurricanes_N.htm

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"We're seeing a quite substantial increase in hurricanes over the last
century, very closely related to increases in sea surface temperatures
in the tropical Atlantic Ocean," says study author Greg Holland of the
National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado.

Working with hurricane researcher Peter Webster of Georgia Institute
of Technology, Holland looked at sea records from 1855 to 2005 in a
study published in the British journal Philosophical Transactions of
the Royal Society A.

The researchers found that average hurricane numbers jumped sharply
during the 20th century, from 3.5 per year in the first 30 years to
8.4 in the earliest years of the 21st century. Over that time,
Atlantic Ocean surface temperatures increased .65 degrees, which
experts call a significant increase.
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Received on Mon Jul 30 12:00:07 2007