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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1030304)9/12/2017 10:56:26 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) of 1577585
 
"People should now stop saying 'who cares, storm activity is just a few per cent up'," says (Judith) Curry. "It's the strongest storms that matter most."


Oh, my; that was before the Berkeley Earth study drove her insane. ..




Hurricanes are getting fiercer
Global warming blamed for growth in storm intensity.
Published online 3 September 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1079

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"It'll be pretty hard now for anyone to claim that cyclone activity has not increased," says Judith Curry, an atmospheric researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, who was not involved in the study.

Strongest storms matter most
Three years ago, Curry and her team calculated that category 4 and 5 storms have almost doubled in number and proportion since 1970 2.

nature.com
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