Study blames climate change for hurricanes - Reuters

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Source: Reuters

Study blames climate change for hurricanes
Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:51PM EDT

By Jim Loney

MIAMI (Reuters) - 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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