Storms More Than Doubled in Century -- Sharp Jumps Coincided with Rising Sea Temps

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WASHINGTON - The number of tropical storms developing annually in the Atlantic Ocean more than doubled over the past century, with the increase taking place in two jumps, researchers say.

The increases coincided with rising sea surface temperature, largely the byproduct of human-induced climate warming, researchers Greg J. Holland and Peter J. Webster concluded. Their findings were being published online Sunday by Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.

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Storms More Than Doubled in Century -- Sharp Jumps Coincided with Rising Sea Temps

An official at the National Hurricane Center called the research "sloppy science" and said technolo...

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