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Saw on TWC that hurricanes are like global air conditioners - taking heat from the tropics and drawing it up into the polar regions. True?
If so we wouldn't want to find a way to reduce their intensity so much as a way to try to steer them. That's probably not possible given we're talking about forces on a global scale - right?
I tend to agree with that. Looking at the dynamics of hurricanes, they also expel a lot of heat energy into the upper Troposphere and more northern latitudes. They certainly appear to be a balancing mechanism (climatologically speaking) on a global scale. I feel that it would be unwise to attempt to reduce their intensity. Like the saying, "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature."
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