The new 2006 outlook was issued at 10 o'clock this morning during a news conference at the National Hurricane Center in the Miami area.
You can see the full text here:
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/outlooks/hurricane.shtml
You can see the full text here:
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/outlooks/hurricane.shtml
on May 22, 2006, 9:57 am
One government storm researcher attributed the record storm season to global warming.
"The hurricanes we are seeing are indeed a direct result of climate change and it's no longer something we'll see in the future, it's happening now," Greg Holland, a division director at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, was quoted by Reuters as saying.
Speaking to the American Meteorological Society's 27th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Holland said wind and warmer water conditions that fuel storms that form in the Caribbean are "increasingly due to greenhouse gases. There seems to be no other conclusion you can logically draw."
Some like Colorado State University hurricane researcher William Gray disagree.
Gray attributes the warming to natural cycles -- predicting another five to 10 years of warming, followed by cooling.
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