Category: Historical

  • Hurricanes in a Warming World

    Hurricanes in a Warming World

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    Climate scientists are generally confident that climate warming leads to stronger TCs… But on the question of hurricane numbers, the answer is unclear.

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  • Counting Historical Hurricanes

    Counting Historical Hurricanes

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    Sounds great, but…it turns out that nobody knows for sure how many TCs there were before we began tracking them with satellites in the late 1960s. Before then, just a subset of TCs were actually recorded in the history books – typically by ships or when the storm came ashore. Others were “fish storms” that…

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