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If sea temperatures continue to rise, scientists fear that category four and five hurricanes, such as Katrina, which battered New Orleans last summer, will become more commonplace.    <\/div>\n<div>\nNathan Gillett, a co-author of the study at the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia, said: &quot;We know the oceans have been warming in these regions and some scientists have said it was because of natural events. But this study confirms that it cannot be explained by a natural cycle.&quot;   <\/div>\n<div>\nSee <a href=\"https:\/\/environment.guardian.co.uk\/climatechange\/story\/0,,1870268,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">full story<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane breeding grounds in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans are being warmed by greenhouse gases, raising fears that more intense and devastating storms will be unleashed on nearby coastlines, scientists warned yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"country":[],"class_list":["post-25370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast 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