Measured by total energy (Accumulated Cyclone Energy), hurricane activity is at a low not encountered since the 1970s.

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Also, by the way, global hurricane activity, measured in total energy (Accumulated Cyclone Energy), is actually at a low not encountered since the 1970s.

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There is an alternative metric called accumulated cyclonic energy, which is essentially an integral over time of hurricane strength, whether they hit land or not.

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Since Hurricane Katrina, the global accumulated cyclone energy index has declined to almost the lowest level since we started measuring such phenomena in the early 1970s.

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There are demands for a write-off, as well as for Russia's debts to the West to be offset by notional loans made long ago to Soviet satellite states such as Vietnam, or by the energy debts accumulated more recently by nearby countries such as Ukraine.

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Roger Bilham, a geophysicist at the University of Colorado, says the latest quake may have released only a tenth of the pent-up energy that has accumulated along the region's fault lines due to tectonic shifts.

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Dingell, ranking Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, blasted Bush for ignoring Federal Trade Commission data accumulated in the last days of the Clinton administration that indicated some oil companies "held oil off the market to benefit themselves, " ostensibly causing prices hikes.

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