Columns Sep 14, 2011 at 4:00 am

Is Global Warming Making Monster Hurricanes?

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Also: Some "scientists" say that humans and dinosaurs existed at the same time.

When not all experts agree on something, it's important to teach the controversy.
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What kind of correlation do we see? Can we get a confidence interval on years between cat 3+ landfall storms as a function of global temperature increase? What will it look like if we end up at the goal of 2 degrees C increase? At the worst case scenario?
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More info on this topic available here, from Kerry Emanuel's website:
http://wind.mit.edu/~emanuel/Papers_data…

Emanuel literally wrote the book on hurricanes ("Divine Wind").
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OK, my link did not show up, just go to
http://wind.mit.edu/~emanuel/
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@1 ALL GLORY TO TIMECUBE TEACH THE CONTROVERSY!

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