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The Reference Frame: A giant breach in Earth's magnetic field

At any rate, I find it likely that a proper understanding of the flow of charged particles - not only cosmic rays - and their interactions with the magnetic fields is going to be important for a proper understanding of climate variability. And be sure that the periodic effects with the 22-year period are not the only ones that will exist and matter.

Prometheus » Blog Archive » Evaluation of Near Term Hurricane Loss Predictions

Three years into the five year prediction period, all of the near term models significantly over-predicted the number of hurricanes that would form in the Atlantic, the number of landfalling hurricanes, and the insured hurricane losses. While the number of hurricanes is running a bit above average for the cumulative period, 2006 through 2008, landfalling hurricanes are running about 22 percent below average, and insured losses are more than 50 percent below average.