Revkin: "The number of hurricanes striking the United States appears to be dropping as a result of warming"

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On Warming and U.S. Hurricane Strikes - NYTimes.com

McKibben’s effort to use this United States hurricane landfall as a specter of things to come in a greenhouse-heated world doesn’t mesh with the science, which shows a measurable, though subtle, trend in the opposite direction. That’s why I agree with Keith Kloor’s conclusion that this kind of rhetoric is “undermining the legitimacy” of the call to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.