Study: Warming may cut US hurricane hits
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Global warming could reduce how many hurricanes hit the United States, according to a new federal study that clashes with other research. The new study is the latest in a contentious scientific debate over how man-made global warming may affect the intensity and number of hurricanes.
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Researchers have shown that the Sun can be responsible for, at most, only a small part of the warming over the last 20-30 years.
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By Papasian, Melanie H  A new tree-ring study links rising sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic Ocean to the last five centuries of episodic fire outbreaks in the western United States.
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The Arctic is being hit by melting ice, hotter air and dying wildlife, a US report on the impact of global warming says.
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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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NEW YORK, 19 September 2004 - With a successive series of hurricanes ravaging the Caribbean and the southeast United States, US lawmakers and environmentalists met this week to examine if these climate changes are due, in part, to greenhouse-gas
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Scientists are claiming that the unprecedented ferocity and frequency of the hurricanes that have battered the Caribbean this year can be blamed on one factor: the unexpectedly warm water that has been building up in the Atlantic over the past year.
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Heat waves in Chicago, Paris, and elsewhere in North America and Europe will become more intense, more frequent, and longer lasting in the 21st century, according to a new modeling study by two scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
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A rise in deaths owing to global warming heatwaves will not be offset by milder winters, research claims.
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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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Recent hurricanes that lashed the southeastern United States likely caused slower job growth last month than otherwise would have been the case, US Treasury Secretary John Snow said on Thursday.
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Description: Not since the 1960s has Florida been battered by a rapid succession of hurricanes. Many people have been tempted to ask whether this has anything to do with a predicted increase in severe weather events associated with global warming.
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The lead author of the new study said the findings suggested that further warming would probably make hurricanes stronger in coming decades.
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The BBC's Peter Gibbs explains why hurricanes happen, and what can be done to limit their impact.
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Human activity has at least doubled the risk of heat waves like the one in 2003 that killed thousands in Europe, researchers conclude in a study being published today in the scientific journal Nature.
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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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A study of a 2003 heatwave in Europe may give Pacific islanders and environmentalists new ammunition for legal cases blaming the United States for global warming, advocates said on Thursday.