Posted by Lee Russ on 7/30/2007, 5:32 pm Using records dating back to 1855, hurricane researchers say they have uncovered an ongoing rise in the number of Atlantic hurricanes that tracks the increase in sea surface temperature related to climate change. Critics of such a link argue that this trend is merely because of better observations since the dawn of the satellite era in the 1970s. But the authors of the new study say the conclusion is hard to dodge. "Even if we take the extreme of these error estimates, we are left with a significant trend since 1890 and a significant trend in major hurricanes starting anytime before 1920," say atmospheric scientists Greg Holland of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., and Peter Webster of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta......
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From the Scientific American: July 30, 2007
Stronger Link Found between Hurricanes and Global Warming
A century's worth of records suggests that hurricanes are on the rise and a warming Atlantic is to blame
By David Biello
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