Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Hurricanes and Global Warming

Meteorologist Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Peter Webster of the Georgia Institute of Technology have both suggested that there is a strong link between global warming and hurricanes. They have found that in the past 30 years, there has been an increase of tropical storms in the North Atlantic and the Pacific. They have also found an increase in category 4 and 5 hurricanes.

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