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Article: Atlantic tropical storms more than double in century
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- July 30, 2007
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WASHINGTON (AP) - 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
being published online Sunday 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 ...