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When Bill Read, new director of the National Hurricane Center, took the dais to introduce a speaker at the state hurricane conference in May, he had a little trouble with a laptop being used for presentations.
"Must be global warming," he quipped, drawing laughter and clapping from the crowd of emergency managers who had just heard a passionate speech from Stan Goldenberg, a 25-year veteran of NOAA's Hurricane Research Division.
Read was poking a bit of fun at an intense debate raging among tropical meteorologists and climate scientists. Goldenberg had given the crowd a peek into the debate.
While many scientists around the world blame a host of environmental problems on global warming, many meteorologists and hurricane forecasters have been slow to accept -- if not downright antagonistic to -- theories that the hyperactive hurricane seasons of 2004 and 2005 were juiced up by anything other than natural weather cycles.
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