[opendtv] Re: Off topic: Researchers uncover potent greenhouse gas

Convincing research shows that the number and strength of hurricanes is 
inversely proportional to the amount of high atmosphere dust over Africa.  
Changes in ocean temp had much less effect.

The storms are born off the east coast of Africa and when dust levels are 
"normal", the dust blowing off the continent squelches them, seeds rainfall and 
dampens their energy or something (they didn't suggest the mechanism). During 
recent high activity, dust was dramatically lower and more storms survived and 
grew to hurricane strength.  They didn't speculate what was modulating the 
millions of tons of dust normally suspended over the Sahara.

Maybe global cooling is reducing dust storms which is increasing hurricanes.

Kilroy Hughes
TheoriesAreUS

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Subject: [opendtv] Re: Off topic: Researchers uncover potent greenhouse gas

At 6:46 PM -0400 10/28/08, Tom Barry wrote:
>According to one Nature article the duration and strength of
>hurricanes has increased by about 50% over the last thirty some years.

Hmmmm...

Could this have something to do with the normal cycle for Hurricanes,
which lasts about 30 to 40 years?

Could it have something to do with the fact that we can now track
hurricanes from their formation until they reach landfall? In the
previous peaks of the cycle - 1930s and 1960s - we only had short
range reconnaissance aircraft ( not sure we were sending out aircraft
in the '30s).

And why did the number, size, and intensity suddenly decrease two
years ago? Could it have something to do with the "unexpected"
cooling of the oceans?

Why is it that the media tends to forget about history and REAL recorded data?

Regards
Craig


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