"The Bush administration has blocked release of a report that suggests global warming is contributing to the frequency and strength of hurricanes, the journal Nature reported Tuesday."
The article reports how Nature reported that they many different NOAA officials said different things: "wasn't done in time", "it needed to be less technical", "merely an internal document". And check out the various headlines given to this same AP story by different papers.
And another reason to be annoyed with science reporting: "Just two weeks ago, researchers said that most of the increase in ocean temperature that feeds more intense hurricanes is a result of human-induced global warming, a study one researcher said 'closes the loop' between climate change and powerful storms like Katrina. Not all agree, however, with opponents arguing that many other factors affect storms, which can increase and decrease in cycles." So is there consensus? Is it 90-10 or 50-50?
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