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Hurricanes And Climate Change: Storms Likely To Get Stronger And More Frequent, Study Shows
2013-07-10 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Hurricanes are Mother Natures largest and most destructive storms. Fed by warm ocean waters and moist atmospheric conditions, about 90 such storms -- also known as tropical cyclones -- form worldwide each year. With the population of coastal areas growing daily and sea level on the rise, how these monster storms may change as the climate continues to warm is an increasingly urgent question facing climate scientists, insurance companies, and public officials. A new study by Kerry Emanuel, a prominent...
More major hurricanes coming this century
2013-07-09 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Live Science: Strong hurricanes could hit Asia and the U.S. East Coast more often this century, a new study finds. The research adds to a growing body of evidence that hurricanes are becoming more intense as global warming heats the oceans. This means Category 1, 2 and 3 storms will have fiercer winds, bumping them up to Category 3, 4 and higher. Overall, the study's modeling approach predicts a 40 percent global increase in tropical cyclones of Category 3 and higher during the 21st century. The findings...
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Climate change could make hurricanes stronger - and more frequent
2013-07-09 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: Maybe Mayor Michael Bloomberg would have gone through the troubling of putting together a 430-page report outlining a $19.5 billion plan to save New York from the threat of climate change had Hurricane Sandy not hit last year and inflicted some $20 billion in New York City alone. But somehow I doubt it. There`s a reason that a satellite image of Hurricane Katrina highlighted the poster for An Inconvenient Truth, or that belief in man-made global warming tends to spike after extreme weather. Heat...
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Storm warning: Climate change to spawn more hurricanes
2013-07-08 21:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: The world could see as many as 20 additional hurricanes and tropical storms each year by the end of the century because of climate change, says a study out today. The study was published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), written by top climate researcher Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On average, about 90 tropical cyclones form each year around the world, Emanuel says. ("Tropical cyclone" is an umbrella term that includes hurricanes,...
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Aerosols May Have Helped Suppress Hurricanes During 20th Century
2013-06-24 22:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: Researchers wrote in the journal Nature Geoscience that aerosols could have played a role in helping to suppress the number of Atlantic hurricanes over the 20th Century. The scientists found that aerosols make clouds brighter, which causes them to reflect more energy back from the sun into space. This impacts ocean temperatures and tropical circulation patterns, making the conditions less favorable for hurricanes. "Industrial emissions from America and Europe over the 20th Century have cooled...
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