date: Fri Jul 29 15:04:55 2005 from: Phil Jones subject: Re: [Fwd: Report on increase in hurricane destructiveness] to: Kevin Trenberth Kevin, Will remove. Still going through Dave's revisions. Moving sections around to make it read better. Nothing on 3.3.2.5 onwards. Should be emailing revised version in 20-30 minutes. Phil At 14:50 29/07/2005, you wrote: Phil This article is nearly out: embargoed till today. So we should be able to remove that pdf and update the reference. Kevin -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Report on increase in hurricane destructiveness Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:16:04 -0400 From: Jeff Hecht [1] To: [2]trenbert@ucar.edu Nature is publishing a letter by Kerry Emanuel which reports that hurricane destructiveness has incr eased over the past 30 years, as measured by duration and peak intensity of storms. He links that wi th warming of sea-surface temperatures, but notes that the increase is larger than expected from the ory. I'm curious what you think of his analysis, particularly light of your recent Perspective in Science . Why do you think his estimates of destructiveness are higher than predicted? Do you expect this tr end to continue? I spoke to someone in your office, who suggested I send you this to read. Please call me at 617-965- 3834 on Friday after you have a chance to read it. Thanks, Jeff Hecht, New Scientist magazine -- Jeff Hecht, science & technology writer [3]jeff@jeffhecht.com Boston Correspondent: New Scientist magazine Contributing Editor: Laser Focus World 525 Auburn St., Auburndale, MA 02466 USA v. 617-965-3834; fax 617-332-4760 -- **************** Kevin E. Trenberth e-mail: [4]trenbert@ucar.edu Climate Analysis Section, NCAR [5]www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/ P. O. Box 3000, (303) 497 1318 Boulder, CO 80307 (303) 497 1333 (fax) Street address: 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, CO 80303 Prof. Phil Jones Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) 1603 592090 School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) 1603 507784 University of East Anglia Norwich Email p.jones@uea.ac.uk NR4 7TJ UK ----------------------------------------------------------------------------