Comments on: Megafires are a Megaworry http://climateprogress.org/2007/03/19/megafires-are-a-megaworry/ The Latest on Climate Science, Solutions, and Politics Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:33:47 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Earl Killian http://climateprogress.org/2007/03/19/megafires-are-a-megaworry/#comment-3424 Earl Killian Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:43:22 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2007/03/19/megafires-are-a-megaworry/#comment-3424 I've seen no general reporting of the following item from the 9 March 2007 of Science: A Dose of Dust That Quieted an Entire Hurricane Season? by Richard A. Kerr which was just reporting on work in the 27 February issue of Eos (but I don't have a subscription to that). Remember the predictions for the 2006 hurricane season that didn't happen? Now two scientists explain why 2006 was normal instead of deadly. Quoting from the Science writeup: "an unusually heavy surge of dust began blowing off North Africa and into the western Atlantic at the 1 June beginning of the official hurricane season. Two weeks later, the surface waters of the western Atlantic began to cool compared with temperatures in the previous season." So the Sahara saved us. This time. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/315/5817/1351a I’ve seen no general reporting of the following item from the 9 March 2007 of Science: A Dose of Dust That Quieted an Entire Hurricane Season? by Richard A. Kerr which was just reporting on work in the 27 February issue of Eos (but I don’t have a subscription to that). Remember the predictions for the 2006 hurricane season that didn’t happen? Now two scientists explain why 2006 was normal instead of deadly. Quoting from the Science writeup: “an unusually heavy surge of dust began blowing off North Africa and into the western Atlantic at the 1 June beginning of the official hurricane season. Two weeks later, the surface waters of the western Atlantic began to cool compared with temperatures in the previous season.” So the Sahara saved us. This time.

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]]> By: Turbulent Issues » Blog Archive » Megafires are a Megaworry http://climateprogress.org/2007/03/19/megafires-are-a-megaworry/#comment-3407 Turbulent Issues » Blog Archive » Megafires are a Megaworry Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:51:11 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2007/03/19/megafires-are-a-megaworry/#comment-3407 [...] to Climate Progress Climate change is a likely contributer to phenomenal megafires that are “impossible to extinguish [...] [...] to Climate Progress Climate change is a likely contributer to phenomenal megafires that are “impossible to extinguish [...]

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