Study: Warming may cut US hurricane hits (AP)

Residents are evacuated from a Florida nursing home ahead of a 2004 hurricane. Elderly black Americans in nursing homes get worse care than that enjoyed by their white counterparts, researchers at an elite US university have found.(AFP/File/Robert Sullivan)AP - Global warming could reduce how many hurricanes hit the United States, according to a new federal study that clashes with other research. The new study is the latest in a contentious scientific debate over how man-made global warming may affect the intensity and number of hurricanes.