Emanuel Responds

"Emanuel discounted the Science piece and said he put considerable effort into accounting for changes in estimating storm strength."

"They ignore the most significant finding from my Nature paper - that Atlantic hurricane activity is highly correlated with sea surface temperature, which is comparatively well-measured," Emanuel said by e-mail from the Queen Mary 2, where he is lecturing on storms. "This cannot be explained away by invoking rather qualitative arguments about data quality."

You have to wonder how much pressure Landsea is under working for the Bush administration given the fact Bush has leaned on them and NASA to water down connections to global warming. Has Landsea become a shill? It looks like it.