More research is needed to better understand the extent to which other factors, such as atmospheric stability and circulation, affect hurricane development. (skepticalscience.com)
There are several factors in hurricane development, including wind shear and dry air in the middle atmosphere, but sea surface temperature is critical. (wxshift.com)
Holland said that the tropical storm anomalies in the 1940s and 1950s can be explained by natural variability, but that the increasingly higher CO2 levels in the atmosphere began to change the regular patterns of hurricane development in the Caribbean in the 1970s, and that by the early 1990s, the changes in the atmospheric began affecting the storm numbers and intensities. (realclimate.org)