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Warming temperatures could multiply Katrina-like hurricanes : study
2013-03-18 23:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The number of Atlantic storms with magnitude similar to killer Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast in 2005, could rise sharply this century, environmental researchers reported on Monday. Scientists have long studied the relationship between warmer sea surface temperatures and cyclonic, slowly spinning storms in the Atlantic Ocean, but the new study attempts to project how many of the most damaging hurricanes could result from warming air temperatures as well. The extreme...
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