We were not expecting to get caught up in the global warming debate when we published our initial research last September. But the whole question of global warming is something that has to be confronted. |
We're not even at the peak of the current cycle — we're only halfway up and already we're seeing activity in the North Atlantic that's 50 percent worse than what we saw during the last peak in 1950. |
With some confidence, we can say that these two things are connected, and that there's probably a substantial contribution from greenhouse warming. |
With some confidence, we can say these two things must be connected. |
With this new paper, we firm up the link between the increase in sea surface temperatures and hurricane intensity, which has been a key issue in the debate about whether global warming is causing an increase in hurricane intensity. |