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BOSTON, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Hurricanes are becoming larger and producing stronger winds, according to Massachusetts Institute of Technology research, the Boston Globe reported Monday.
MIT hurricane specialist Kerry Emanuel said the destructive power of North Atlantic and North Pacific hurricanes has nearly doubled during the past 30 years -- partly due to human-caused global warming.
Emanuel, a well known climate researcher, says hurricanes striking the Eastern United States and typhoons in Southeast Asia are, on average, releasing far more energy than their predecessors did during the mid-1970s, the Globe reported.
"There seems to be a clear correlation" between increasing strength and length of storms and a temperature increase of 0.5 degrees Celsius on the surface of the sea during the same period, said Emanuel.
The study, which has produced much controversy among meteorologists and cyclone experts, appears in the online journal Nature.
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