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Warmer Oceans linked to Stronger Hurricanes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the raise-your-hand-if-you-are-shocked dept.

linguizic writes "According to Scientific American, global warming could be creating stronger hurricanes: 'Since the 1970s, ocean surface temperatures around the globe have been on the rise--from one half to one degree Fahrenheit, depending on the region. Last summer, two studies linked this temperature rise to stronger and more frequent hurricanes. Skeptics called other factors into account, such as natural variability, but a new statistical analysis shows that only this sea surface temperature increase explains this trend.'"

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  1. This can't be true by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Global warming is a Liberal Myth. Rush and Sean said so!

    1. Re:This can't be true by TroopaCabra · · Score: 2, Funny

      Damn. You beat me to it. I was just going to say the EXACT same thing, almost. Anyone that talks of global warming is a liberal- and also likely a terrorist too. F'n Wackos! so why are we having more potent hurricanes again?

  2. I don't understand... by saigon_from_europe · · Score: 1, Funny
    ...ocean surface temperatures around the globe have been on the rise--from one half to one degree Fahrenheit...
    Err... how many hogheads is that?
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  3. OMFG!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    IT'S THE APOCOLYPSE!!!

  4. Re:Sick of schools brainwashing lil kids with theo by syntaxglitch · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, it's a pity the schools didn't brainwash you into believing in "paragraphs".

  5. Another day, another disaster by FishandChips · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh well, coming on top of famine, drought, peak oil, bird flu, hiv, cancer, global warming, wars, the North Pole melting, earthquakes, resurgent Islam and thermo-nuclear trouble in Iraq - news always available in a newspaper near you - I guess I'll just have to put this one down to yet another paragraph I failed to read at the bottom of the End User's Licence Agreement called life.

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  6. Other Headline: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Stupid Republicans Linked to Warmer Oceans

    uuber liberal FTW

  7. Re:Kyoto by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    One, that does to Crawford, Texas what Katrina did to New Orleans, Missisippi, and elsewhere (assuming George W. Bush is still in charge at that point).

    "Still"? He wasn't in charge during the first one ;-)

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  8. Re:Sick of schools brainwashing lil kids with theo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Seriously when I was 10 its easy to tell kids, oh don't use styraphone to protect global warming, oh recycle! ...

    But now that you are 11, you have clearly got it all figured out.

  9. Re:Um. . .Duh? by Jeremi · · Score: 2, Funny
    maybe because they are ignoring the evidence NASA has that global warming is also occuring on Mars


    You think Mars is bad, check out the greenhouse problems they have on Venus...

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