The past two years have seen a “remarkable” downturn in hurricane activity, contradicting predictions of more storms, researchers at Florida State University say. The 2007 and 2008 hurricane seasons had the least tropical activity in the Northern Hemisphere in 30 years, according to Ryan Maue, co-author of a report on Global Tropical Cyclone Activity. “The simplistic notion that warmer oceans from global warming automatically lead to more frequent and or stronger hurricanes has not been verified,” said Goldenberg, whose research points to periods of high and low hurricane activity that last several decades each.
