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The calm instead of the storm

Surprise El Niño soothed this year's hurricane season.

2006 was supposed to be a rough year for Atlantic hurricanes. Coming on the back of the devastating 2005 season — which saw Hurricane Katrina ravage the US Gulf Coast and forecasters run out of alphabetized names for storms — both researchers and the public were braced for an above-average season.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on November 30, 2006 04:14 PM |

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Oceans and Global Warming

Number of science reviews in this field have linked solar activity to the climate change. Rise in global temperature is always accompanied by the rise in CO2 concentration. Human contribution may be significant but it is not critical. By far the greatest amount of CO2 is released by the world’s oceans; they are also the largest absorbers. The release of CO2 is not, but its absorption is affected by the Sun. The culprits are UV and gamma radiations reaching the oceans’ surface during periods of high sunspot activity.

Some 2 years ago I wrote:

Increased solar activity results in an increase of the harmful radiation, reducing bio-mass of the oceans’ surface plankton trough process of sterilisation by irradiation. Result of this is reduced uptake of CO2 from the atmosphere and rising in the ‘green-house’ effect. Reverse process takes place during reductions in the solar activity

Posted by: m.vukcevic | December 4, 2006 06:11 PM

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