ABC News Watch: hurricane

"These results do not support the hypothesis that the warming of the tropical North Atlantic due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions has caused Atlantic hurricane frequency to increase."

So concludes the abstract of a new paper: Vecchi, Gabriel A., and Thomas R Knutson, March 2011: Estimating annual numbers of Atlantic hurricanes missing from the HURDAT database (1878-1965) using ship track density. Journal of Climate, 24(6), doi:10.1175/2010JCLI3810.1.

Doesn't gel with ABC's Groupthink perspective: Climate change to increase bushfires and cyclones

See also

Missing News: Hurricane activity all time low

Missing News: North Atlantic storm frequency spurious

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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Missing News: No increase in hurricane frequency