Thomas Knutson is a climate modeller at the US Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

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, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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 (NOAA). In 2004, he published a paper suggesting that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide

Carbon dioxide

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 would lead to more intense hurricanes

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. This finding was subsequently supported by independent research. Knutson was invited to discuss his thesis on Ron Reagan

Ron Reagan

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's MSNBC

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 talk show

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, but the invitation was withdrawn after the White House

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 intervened.

Source: New Scientist Magazine 2007-02-03, p. 5

External links

• Donaghy, T., et al. (2007) "Atmosphere of Pressure:" a report of the Government Accountability Project
  Government Accountability Project
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  (Cambridge, Mass.: UCS Publications), page 30
• One 2004 paper on the subject by Knutson