A new flurry of stat crunching from the Georgia Institute of Technology claims to support what researchers Peter Webster and Judy Curry claimed days after Hurricane Katrina - that rising sea temperatures are causing a significant increase in the number of hurricanes.

When they first published their results, the study was attacked for ignoring other variables like humidity, atmospheric circulation and the strength of horizontal winds.

So they got some in-house statisticians to comb through the numbers again. The results support their original findings.

(Source: New Scientist)

PS - If you’re a global warming sceptic, you may want to check out George Musser’s blog over at Scientific American. He’s got a great free for all comment discussion going (at 170 comments as of last count) or you can skip to his summary.