20/20: More Scientists Say Global Warming Causes Stronger Hurricanes

[highplainsdem]

I caught this story last night, was pleasantly surprised to see ABC's "20/20" give the link between global warming and hurricanes this much attention in prime time.

Here's a link to the three-page story on their website:

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/HurricaneRita/story?id=1154125&page=1


Quoting the first and second pages:

Three new reports authored by prominent scientists — published in the journals "Nature" and "Science" — bolster that theory's credibility.

"There's good evidence to show that Category 4 and 5 storms indeed are becoming more common and a bigger part of the overall pictures of the hurricanes in the world," said Kevin Trenberth, a scientist at the government-funded National Center for Atmospheric Research.

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Many of the scientists at the National Hurricane Center have long been skeptical of linking global warming to more powerful hurricanes. But the former director of hurricane research at NOAA Hugh Willoughby says he has changed his mind because of these new findings.

"These three papers convinced me for several reasons," Willoughby said. "One, the people that are doing them are people whose reputations I respect a lot, and people who would tend to be skeptical."

[Kipling]

1. Duh.

By 2025, northern Australia and the Southern US could be in a state of permanant disaster for 3 months a year.

[highplainsdem]

2. If not sooner...