Climate Change Likely To Intensifies Storms, New Study Confirms

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Sat, 04/19/2008 - 13:00

Hurricanes in some areas, including the North Atlantic, are likely to become more intense as a result of global warming even though the number of such storms worldwide may decline, according to a new study by MIT researchers.

The lead author of the new study, wrote a paper in 2005 reporting an apparent link between a warming climate and an increase in hurricane intensity.

That paper attracted worldwide attention because it was published in Nature just three weeks before Hurricane...

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