The strongest hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean have become more intense due to global warming over the past 25 years, according to a new study in Wednesday’s edition of the British journal Nature. The findings add fuel to the simmering argument in the meteorological community about the Earth’s changing climate, and its relationship to the power of tropical systems worldwide.

The strongest hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean have become more intense due to global warming over the past 25 years, according to a new study in Wednesday’s edition of the British journal Nature. The findings add fuel to the simmering argument in the meteorological community about the Earth’s changing climate, and its relationship to the power of tropical systems worldwide. All of the world’s tropical basins showed this pattern, with the exception of the South Pacific Ocean. Also, there was no noticeable uptick in the intensity of weaker hurricanes, however.

As expected, any such science based on limited data (25 years is not a very long period for getting data on storms in the world’s oceans). However, if this research is true, then this is another example of the major effect that global warming causes to people around the world.