New Study Links Warmer Water, More Hurricanes

A new study is blaming 2017's unusually high number of hurricanes on the Atlantic Ocean's rising surface temperatures. The report is one of the first to suggest that human-driven global warming is actually causing more hurricanes. The study published in last week's journal Science also predicts that as warming increases over the next 50 to 100 years, about two more hurricanes on average will form annually than we get now. In addition, those hurricanes will be stronger and...

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