Bummer: Maybe CO2 will make the 2013 hurricane season even more dangerous than the 1780 hurricane season?

How Climate Change And Budget Cuts Could Make This The Most Dangerous Hurricane Season Ever | ThinkProgress

...climate change is fueling more intense and destructive storms. As Kerry Emanuel, professor of atmospheric science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, explains, “Climate change is causing a greater number of intense storms. The total number of storms has remained constant, but the proportion of high-intensity events has gone steadily upward in most parts of the world. Scientific models and real-world observations both suggest that the frequency of intense storms is going up.”

List of deadliest Atlantic hurricanes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is a list of the deadliest known Atlantic hurricanes that caused at least 1,000 direct deaths, the deadliest being the Great Hurricane of 1780, with over 27,500 deaths...The hurricane was part of the disastrous 1780 Atlantic hurricane season, with three exceptionally deadly storms occurring in the month of October.