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Published online 3 September 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1079
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Hurricanes are getting fiercer
Global warming blamed for growth in storm intensity.
As this year's Atlantic hurricane season becomes ever more violent, scientists have come up with the firmest evidence so far that global warming will significantly increase the intensity of the most extreme storms worldwide.
The maximum wind speeds of the strongest tropical cyclones have increased significantly since 1981, according to research published in Nature this week1.
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I wonder if people will ever become fed up with the yearly threat produced by these increasingly destructive storms. Will they eventually decide to move elsewhere?
Hurricane climate experts depend on field data. The amount of hurricane data is not enough for climate models to project real 20 to 100 year forecasts. They are estimations.
Minor note: The reference to Elsner should be Elsner, J., Kossin, J. P. & Jagger, T. H. Nature 455, 92?95 (2008).
Hi, I live at the moment in the north municipality of Holland, Zandvoort. Walking on the beach I have notice a change. The sea has become more aggressive. The wind which is some thing that belongs to Zandvoort has increased in intensity. Some thing is going on ? Regards Dr. Terence Hale
I'm from China,I want to kown whether the frequency and strenth of the cycloe attacking human being are increasing year by year,and why. And I wish that peaple attacked by cycloe could leave safely.Pray for you .
There is no doubt that these disastrous events like hurricane, increase flooding etc is rising all over the world. What many do not know is that science has little to offer in stopping these dangers that awaits humanity. Are we closer to the statements of Dr. Luke: " there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;....." (Luke 21:25)? Is it not better that the world goes back to the One who revealed these facts to Dr. Luke for a lasting solution? I think we can if we have the will