A few weeks before hurricane season, the Commerce Department blocked the release of a document describing possible links between global warming and hurricanes, according to a news article today in the journal Nature.
The journal cited e-mail exchanges between officials and scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration obtained under Freedom of Information laws by the environmental group Greenpeace.
Jordan St. John, a NOAA spokesman, said the document was an information sheet being prepared for journalists but not finished in time. Scientists do not agree on the influence of global warming on hurricane activity.
(By, Andrew C. Revkin
, NYT, 28/09/2006)