Hurricanes are becoming more destructive in part due to the effects of global warming, according to research published online Sunday in the journal Nature.
Kerry A. Emanuel, an MIT professor of meteorology, reviewed about five decades of hurricane and typhoon data, and found that both the duration and wind speeds of the storms had increased by 50%.
"When hurricanes do strike in the future, they will, on average, have much greater intensity, hitting harder and lasting longer," Emanuel noted.
The increased intensity will "substantially increase hurricane-related losses along populated coastlines, hitting people hardest not as previously thought in the tropics but in the middle and high latitudes," he said.
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