Live Science reports on new studies linking the 2005 hurricane season to rising global temperatures.

I don't know if there is consensus yet on whether claims can be made about hurricanes and global warming. Not that global warming wouldn't increase their intensity, that's just thermodynamics, but that it has warmed enough that we should see a difference. I'll wait until real climate makes up it's mind. But it is worrisome.

Just think about it. The energy that would be required to, say, increase the temperature of the Gulf of Mexico by even one degree, and how that would impact a storm system the feeds on the thermal energy of the waters. The potential for contribution is obvious, the only question is, is it happening yet?