Sunspot-hurricane link proposed

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A new study suggests that more sunspots mean less intense hurricanes on Earth. James Elsner, a climatologist at Florida State University in Tallahassee, has analyzed hurricane data going back more than a century. He says he has identified a 10- to 12-year cycle in hurricane records that corresponds to the solar cycle, in which the Sun's magnetic activity rises and falls.
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