November 2007
by Aaron Hoover
Deep History
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Backdoor:Deep History Tracking hurricanes through the past Aaron Hoover Since about 1850, the U.S. coast has been hit by only three Category 5 storms. That's hardly enough to hazard when and where they will strike again. And yet, these destructive storms are precisely the ones it would be most useful to predict. Practitioners of the new science of "paleotempestology" believe they have a solution. Written records may date back only 150 years, but the history of older and even ancient storms remains — buried underground, captured in ancient charcoal, hidden away in caves. The paleotempestologists' goal: to free this history,
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