Experts predict more active hurricane season in U.S.

Wednesday 06th August, 04:27 AM JST

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smithinjapan at 10:19 AM JST - 6th August

Oh...b-b-b-b-b-but it has NOTHING to do with environmental changes due to global warming (as some on here desperately wish were the case).
weedkila at 05:03 PM JST - 6th August

You didn't make yourself very clear. Do you mean global warming due to man and the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere?

If so one of world's leading hurricane forecasters (Dr. William M. Gray), who happens to work at the same same university as the one stated in the JT story said that... The hurricane activity of the next 20 years should resemble the period that began in the late 1920s and lasted through the 1940s. The increase is due to higher salinity content in the Atlantic Ocean, which alters its currents and increases average ocean temperatures, fueling more storms. Gray emphasizes that this is a cyclical trend and has nothing to do with global warming. (April 2000)

You can google his name and find that his position has not changed. In fact he now predicts a period of global cooling.