Strongest tropical cyclones get more extreme


	Strongest tropical cyclones get more extreme

invictus

9-27-2008 7:17 PM

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climate, tropical storms, hurricanes, ocean warming, science

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9-27-2008 9:11 PM

kmcolo

It will be interesting to see how this works out between the two camps - warming equal stronger storms or it doesn't. As should be painfully evident by now with complex systems a single study is not the last word but... Here is another data point.

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