Occhidiangela,Sep 2 2005, 10:57 AM Wrote:5. Some of the Katrina mess is bad timing, of course. How powerful a hurricane will be at land fall is extremely hard for the meteorolgists to predict. (Oh, but we can surely be certain that global warming is purely man caused? Right.) Not much evidence of warming being related to frequency, but strength and duration have tracked pretty well to temperature changes - at least according to one researcher's work:
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