Dr Landsea then asked, for each of the century's big storms, what would happen if an identical storm with an identical track were to strike today?

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Landsea and others have studied meteorological characteristics since the mid-1940s when reliable records were first collected to investigate what might have caused the upswing of storm activity in 1995.

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Christopher Landsea, a top U.S. expert on the subject, repeatedly notified the IPCC that no research had been conducted to support that claim--not in the Atlantic basin, or in any other basin.

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However, Christopher Landsea of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration applied a little common sense to the data by factoring out inflation, the rise in individual wealth over the period and, crucially, the increasing tendency of people to live by the seaside.

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