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...wonder this was it: climate change in action. It seems as though the past few years have been characterized by all sorts of weather extremes--driest, hottest, coldest, wettest. We know that the planet has warmed 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit in the past 100 years, but is there really link between our weather and climate change?
The devastating 2004 hurricane season can only partially be attributed to climate change, experts say. "There are a number of factors that go into making hurricanes," says Ruth Curry, research specialist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Those factors include El Nino cycles, upper stratospheric circulation patterns and the amount of rainfall in the Sahel region of Africa. Sometimes they combine to create conditions ripe for hurricanes and sometimes they work against each other. The 2004 hurricane season is primarily attributed...
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