Monday, July 30, 2007

Study blames climate change for hurricane rise


Approximately 60%, and possibly even 70% of what we are seeing in the last decade can be attributed directly to greenhouse warming.

DR. GREG HOLLAND, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, who authored a new report that shows the boost in Atlantic hurricanes is due to a warmer sea

The number of Atlantic hurricanes in an average season has doubled in the last century due in part to warmer seas and changing wind patterns caused by global warming, according to a study released on Sunday.

Hurricane researchers have debated for years whether climate change caused by greenhouse gases from cars, factories and other human activity is resulting in more, and more intense, tropical storms and hurricanes.

The new study, published online in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, said the increased numbers of tropical storms and hurricanes in the last 100 years is closely related to a 1.3-degree Fahrenheit rise in sea surface temperatures.

The influential U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in a report this year warning that humans contribute to global warming, said it was "more likely than not" that people also contribute to a trend of increasingly intense hurricanes.

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Anonymous said...

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