The myth of warmer ocean temperatures spawning stronger hurricanes
The clearest evidence yet that warming sea temperatures are not responsible for increased storm activity has just been published in Nature. They find:
NEW YORK (Reuters)—Hurricanes over the past 5,000 years appear to have been controlled more by El Nino and an African monsoon than warm sea surface temperatures, such as those caused by global warming, researchers said Wednesday.
The main reason that ocean temperature isn’t expected to generate stronger hurricanes is because it isn’t temperature that drives storm activity.
It’s the difference in temperature between the poles and the equator that matters. And because the global warming models predict that warming temperatures affect the poles more than it does the equator, global warming is expected to reduce the temperature difference, and likely the number and strength of Atlantic hurricanes.
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