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Article: Tropical storms up more than 100% in century
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- Capital (Annapolis)
- Article date:
- July 30, 2007
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WASHINGTON - The number of tropical storms developing annually in
the Atlantic Ocean more than doubled over the past century, with the
increase taking place in two jumps, researchers say.
The increases coincided with rising sea surface temperature,
largely the byproduct of human-induced climate warming, researchers
Greg J. Holland and Peter J. Webster concluded. Their findings were
published online yesterday by Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society of London.
An official at the National Hurricane Center called the research
"sloppy science" and said technological improvements in observing
storms accounted for the increase.
From 1905 to 1930, the Atlantic-Gulf Coast area averaged six ...