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Published online 15 April 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.754
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Hurricane outlook scaled back
Findings intensify debate over how storms and climate are linked.
A new method for modelling hurricanes suggests that a warmer climate might not increase storm intensity as much as was previously believed.
The results came as a surprise to lead author Kerry Emanuel, a hurricane expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, who had previously argued that global warming was behind an estimated 75% increase in category 4 and 5 hurricanes since 1970.
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If scientists cannot perform the crucial probe, i.e.,cooling the earth and assessing storms behaviour, all scientists discussions are ludicrous ideas.
I agree with Sergio. We have to do something