It's a Kerry flip-flop! Emanuel backtracks on hurricanes and global warming

Kerry Emanuel, the influential M.I.T. climate scientist who has been at the forefront of making the argument that global warming will lead to more intense hurricanes, has released a new study that backtracks on his earlier findings, revealing more uncertainty on the question of whether such a link exists. (Hat tip: InstaPundit.) I've pointed out repeatedly that the question of what global warming would do vis a vis hurricanes is an entirely separate issue -- about which there is much less cons