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Dáithí Stone

Dáithí Stone is at the department for atmospheric physics, Oxford University; his home page is here.

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Hurricanes, global warming, and global politics

A new research paper providing scientific underpinning for links between global warming and the increasing regularity of hurricanes is a challenge to policy-makers to think afresh, report Dave Frame & Dáithí Stone.