As I mentioned in my Political Edge post, Judith Curry at Georgia Tech was doing some research on the hurricane frequency and it's now been reported in ScientificAmerican.com. According to the report about the increase in hurricanes and their strength, a "new statistical analysis shows that only this sea surface temperature increase explains this trend."
This article was really just a summary of the real article which is in the March 13th edition of Science online, check out the abstract. According to the abstract (I didn't buy the article, and it doesn't seem to be available via my GT library account), the researchers "use a methodology based on information theory, isolating the trend from the shorter term natural modes of variability. Results show that the increasing trend in number of category 4 and 5 hurricanes for the period 1970-2004 is directly linked to the trend in SST." Here, SST means Sea Surface Temperature.
Tech released some additional info on the research, but still no article. An earlier article is available though. I'll keep digging to get the full article...
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