December 12, 2006
WMO Press Release on Hurricanes and Climate Change
Posted to Author: Pielke Jr., R. Climate Change Disasters
This press release (.doc) from the World Meteorological Organization yesterday:
A consensus of 125 of the world’s leading tropical cyclone researchers and forecasters says that no firm link can yet be drawn between human-induced climate change and variations in the intensity and frequency of tropical cyclones.
The WMO is of course one of the parent bodies of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Given this pedigree and the importance of this consensus statement, I'm sure that we'll now see this widely discussed on science-related weblogs and in the media. For details on the consensus statement, see our earlier discussion here.
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