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  • Global Warming Enters Hurricane Debate

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    MyWay: Global Warming Enters Hurricane Debate NEW ORLEANS (AP) – A lively and sometimes scrappy debate on whether global warming is fueling bigger and nastier hurricanes like Katrina is adding an edge to a gathering of forecasters here. The venue for the 88th annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society could not have been more…

  • Global warming may spur wind shear, sap hurricanes

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    Reuters: Global warming may spur wind shear, sap hurricanes (HT Marc Vander Maas). MIAMI (Reuters) – Global warming could increase a climate phenomenon known as wind shear that inhibits Atlantic hurricanes, a potentially positive result of climate change, according to new research released on Tuesday. The study, to be published on Wednesday in Geophysical Research…

  • NOAA Revisits Historic Hurricanes

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    Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Hurricane Research Division: NOAA Revisits Historic Hurricanes Major revisions to the Atlantic basin hurricane database (or HURDAT) have just been completed for the second half of the 19th Century and early 20th Century. HURDAT is the official record of tropical storms and hurricanes for the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico…

  • Warming not behind hurricane activity: Forecaster

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    Reuters: Warming not behind hurricane activity: Forecaster (William Gray, the forecaster, is the foremost authority on hurricane forecasting which, until last year, has had a remarkably accurate record.) NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – Natural changes in ocean currents are to blame for increased Atlantic hurricane activity in recent years, not man-made global warming as many scientists…

  • Global Warming Not Featured in New Hurricane Study

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    Global Warming Not Featured in New Hurricane Study is an article by Patrick Michaels at TCS Daily about a recent study on hurricanes. Let's look at their results more carefully. Figure 1 shows the trend in an index of "moist static stability." Essentially, strong hurricanes can more easily form when this index value is low.…