Monday, January 25, 2010

More Hurricanes Than Ever Before

Global Warming has been proven over the past few years and now scientists are starting to study what the effects of global warming will be. The Atlantic ocean has increased .65 degrees F over the past 90 years and scientists have now discovered that the number of hurricanes per year in the Atlantic ocean have now increased substantially.

A STORMY UPSWING

A new study finds that the average number of hurricanes each year has jumped during the past century:

Period studied Hurricanes per year
1905-30 3.5
1931-94 5.1
1995-2005 8.4

Source: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A



http://www.usatoday.com/weather/hurricane/2007-07-29-more-hurricanes_N.htm

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