Worth Studying


The article notes there's not a definite causal relationship, but nonetheless it's an interesting coincidence if nothing else...and is well worth further research:

Dust storms swirling out of Africa's Sahara Desert may help reduce hurricane activity in the Atlantic Ocean, a new study suggests.

The findings aren't conclusive, but researchers led by Amato T. Evan of the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that years with more African dust had fewer tropical storms and years with less dust had more storms.

The study is reported in Tuesday's issue of Geophysical Research Letters.

Evan and his colleagues used satellite images to study the amount of African dust blown out over the Atlantic for the years 1982-2005 and compared that with tropical storm activity.

And speaking just for myself, I further research in this field are a hell of a lot better of an investment than the entire lot of "faith-based" nonsense that's been showered with money and various tax breaks courtesy of this administration.