Global Warming Is Expected to Raise Hurricane Intensity
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Global warming is likely to produce a significant increase in the intensity and rainfall of hurricanes in coming decades, according to an analysis.
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The hurricane appeared to be strengthening and forecasters warned of an increased threat of serious flooding and wind damage.
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Recent storms, droughts and heat waves are probably being caused by global warming, which means the effects of climate change are coming
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Politicians in the nation's capital have been reluctant to set limits on the carbon dioxide pollution that is expected to warm the planet by 4 to 7 degrees Fahrenheit during the next century, citing uncertainty about the severity of the threat. But that uncertainty may have shrunk somewhat with the release last week of two scientific reports suggesting that global warming is not just a hypothetical possibility, but a real phenomenon that has already started transforming especially sensitive parts of the globe.
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Along with their destructive force, hurricanes can have beneficial effects as part of the rhythm of nature. Storms that erode beaches, uproot trees and flatten wildlife habitats may also refresh waterways, revive dry areas and bulk up barrier islands with redistributed sand.
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The likelihood of an above-average Atlantic hurricane season is growing as a Pacific Ocean El Nino system, which drove storms away from the Gulf Coast in 2006, ended in the past few weeks, meteorologists said on Thursday.
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Hurricane scientists say the abundance of hurricanes is part of a storm cycle that could last another 10-30 years.
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A new technique for tracking tempests using tree rings could help settle the debate about whether global warming is affecting hurricane frequency.
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Climate scientists agree there have been a lot of strong hurricanes lately. They agree that warmer seas have given these storms some extra punch. But they disagree how much global warming is to blame.
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The year 2004, punctuated by four powerful hurricanes in the Caribbean and deadly typhoons lashing Asia, was the fourth-hottest on record, extending a trend that has seen the 10 warmest years ever beginning in the 1990s, a U.N. weather agency said Wednesday.
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With the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season just a few hours away, researcher William Gray released his newest forecast Thursday still showing an expection for 17 major storms and nine hurricanes, five of them intense.
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This year is on track to be the second warmest since records began in the 1860s and floods in Pakistan or a heatwave in Greece may herald worse disruptions in store from global warming, experts said on Friday.
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Global warming is melting the Arctic ice faster than expected, and the world&#39;s oceans could rise by about a meter by 2100, swamping homes from Bangladesh to Florida, the head of a study said.
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Global warming may cost Spain many of its famous beaches and could push summer temperatures over 50 degrees Celsius by the end of the century, according to research released on Tuesday.
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Hurricane Charley's sudden increase in intensity and unexpected path show how difficult it remains for scientists to predict massive storms.
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Anticipated global warming by mid-century may be less severe in the central U.S. than elsewhere in the country, researchers said Tuesday.
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A sharp rise in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere raises fears global warming is speeding up, reports say.