VICE News is closely tracking global environmental change. Check out the Tipping Point blog here. Hollywood producers and pulp fiction scribes have depicted a variety of ways that climate change pushes humanity over the precipice. Powerful typhoons, ragging wildfires, and pounding blizzards are just a few.  But it may come as somewhat of a surprise that a peer-reviewed paper published this week in Nature Climate Change finds that, while tropical storms and hurricanes are likely to become stronger as a result of climate change, we’re also likely to see fewer of them. James Elsner, co-author of the study, explained that warmer oceans and increased evaporation contribute to the formation of storms, but that a warmer upper atmosphere tends to inhibit the development of storms. 

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