Al Gore won't like this.
A new federal study says that global warming is not to blame for the recent increase in the number of hurricanes in the Atlantic. The Boston Globe reports that "Not only that, warmer temperatures will reduce the number of hurricanes in the Atlantic and those making landfall, research meteorologist Tom Knutson reported in a study released yesterday."
Knutson is a meteorologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's fluid dynamics lab in Princeton, N.J. His computer-model study says the number of hurricanes will fall by 18 percent by the end of this century. His research appeared in the journal Nature Geoscience.
Knutson is not an anti-global warming advocate. In the past, he has raised concern about the effects of global warming on storms. Knutsen has even "complained in the past about being censored by the Bush administration on past studies on the dangers of global warming."
So you can bet that this new study will increase the argument over just what effects global warming is having on our climate.
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