Number of storms predicted per year during the period 1854 — 2006 versus numbers actually observed for the Atlantic (filled diamonds). The model predictions (grey curve) have been normalized to the data. A quadratic fit to the model is shown for the period 1960 — 2006. Image and caption credit:Erlich, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics; arXiv Robert Ehrlich, a physicist at George Mason University in Washington DC, has published a paper demonstrating that just two variables, surface temperature of the sea and latitude, can account for the probability densit… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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