This is the first time I have been convinced we are seeing a signal in the actual hurricane data.

There are problems in the data to be sure, but they are problems that can be dealt with.

I was skeptical that the increase (in hurricane intensity) would be sufficient to observe by now … (but) the increase has been much more than we would have guessed.

We could see that was going to happen about the time Katrina came off the west coast of Florida,

We were criticized by the seasonal forecasters for not including the other environmental factors, like wind shear, in our analysis. [We didn’t do so] because on time scales longer than 2-3 years, these do not...

My results suggest that future warming may lead to an upward trend in hurricanes’ destructive potential.

When you look at global hurricane activity, you really do see a trend. It’s up everywhere.

Unfortunately, in the issue of the frequency of storms, we’re still kind of in the dark. We don’t understand that issue very well.

It was almost like . ‘ . ‘ . a diabolical storm.

I will go out on a limb and say, eventually, we will accomplish this,

The temperature of the tropic oceans is warmer than it’s been in 150 years,

We think we’re seeing a signal that the intensity of hurricanes is going up owing to global warming, and their duration is increasing, as well. And this has us worried. In terms of the influence...

This isn’t rocket science. If you look at the record of hurricane activity in the Atlantic going back 100 years, you see that there are periods of high activity and periods of low activity.

I think we have a certain amount of climate change locked into the system. Even if we stop burning fossil fuel, the atmosphere and the ocean are going to take a while to respond. It’s...

The hurricanes are following the tropical ocean temperature. The tropical ocean temperature is following the Northern Hemisphere. And it’s very hard now to believe that there’s anything natural about that.

It is tempting to ascribe Katrina, Rita and now Wilma to global warming effects, but I am not sure that would pass statistical muster,

The damage and casualties produced by more intense storms could increase considerably in the future.

The large upward surge in hurricane damage in the US, is clearly owing to the confluence of rapidly increasing coastal population with a decadal time-scale upswing in Atlantic hurricane activity,

The best way to put it is that storms are lasting longer at high intensity than they were 30 years ago.