> there's no measurable impact on hurricane activity yet
They've walked that back from their most recent publication [0], linked in section 4, though. Likely this was done for political reasons, given that a Trump appointee has been leading NOAA ad interim since January [1], and an assistant administrator was just formally appointed [2]. BTW, the temporary head just shut down NOAA's climate change advisory panel [3].
> While these changes are apparent in the globally averaged tropical cyclone statistics, they are not necessarily present in each individual basin.
They've walked that back from their most recent publication [0], linked in section 4, though. Likely this was done for political reasons, given that a Trump appointee has been leading NOAA ad interim since January [1], and an assistant administrator was just formally appointed [2]. BTW, the temporary head just shut down NOAA's climate change advisory panel [3].
> While these changes are apparent in the globally averaged tropical cyclone statistics, they are not necessarily present in each individual basin.
[0] http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/full/10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0129....
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_Secretary_of_Commerce_fo...
[2] http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/50248/...
[3] http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/21/politics/white-house-climate-c...