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May 18, 2008, 11:13PM
Hurricane study puts less blame on global warming
By ERIC BERGER
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle
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STORM SIMULATION
Scientists recently simulated 21st century Atlantic hurricane activity in a warming world. What they found:
• 27 percent fewer tropical storms formed
• 18 percent fewer hurricanes formed
• 8 percent fewer major hurricanes formed (Category 3 and above)
• 3 percent increase in storm maximum wind speed
• 10 percent increase in average storm rainfall
Source: Nature Geoscience
Cyclone Nargis recently made international headlines for dealing death and destruction to Myanmar.
Yet unlike the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, global warming received little blame for the intensification of Nargis. That's possibly because, in the nearly three years since New Orleans flooded, the science of hurricanes and climate has matured.
A new scientific paper authored by prominent National Oceanic and...
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