burt
2008-06-15 19:25:58
“Such relatively short-period events (Sahara dust storms) are a major reason why it is reasonable to expect that annual hurricane predictions may be less accurate than, for example, predictions of the Earth’s average temperature over the course of a decade or a century.” A major short term event, the eruption of Tambora, two hundred years ago caused a very serious decrease of average global temperature over a span of a decade. The worst year was so cold that people starved in New England because there was no successful growing season.
