SCIENCE IN THE NEWS
from Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
Today's Headlines - September 12, 2006
Report Links Global Warming, Storms
From The San Francisco Chronicle
Scientists say they have found what could be the key to ending a yearlong
debate about what is making hurricanes more violent and common -- evidence
that human-caused global warming is heating the ocean and providing more
fuel for the world's deadliest storms.
Employing 80 computer simulations, scientists from Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory and other institutions concluded that there is only one
answer: that the burning of fossil fuels, which warms the climate, is also
heating the oceans.
Humans, Ben Santer, the report's lead author, told The Chronicle, are making
hurricanes globally more violent "and violent hurricanes more common" -- at
least, in the latter case, in the northern Atlantic Ocean. The findings were
published Monday in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences.
To read more:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/12/MNG5HL3S611.DTL
