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Climate change and Hurricane Katrina: what have we learned?

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imageKatrina shortly after landfall.NOAA/NASA GOES Project, CC BY-SA

Three weeks and three days before Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans 10 years ago, a paper of mine appeared in the scientific journal Nature showing that North Atlantic hurricane power was strongly correlated with the temperature of the tropical Atlantic...

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