Photo: Global Warming Link to Hurricane Intensity Questioned

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Hurricane Katrina was one of four Category Five storms to form in the Atlantic Basin in 2005. A number of studies in recent months have linked global warming with an increased number of extreme tropical storms.

But a commentary in today's edition of Science rebuts those claims, saying historical satellite data on hurricanes is too crude to determine long-term trends in intensity.

Photograph courtesy NOAA

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