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This article reports that seismologists Selwyn Sacks and Alan Linde of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, have stated that "earthquake weather" in Taiwan is blustery. While they were monitoring the strain within boreholes in eastern Taiwan during the second half of 2004, nine typhoons passed over, they reported. During five of them, so-called slow earthquakes swept unfelt across the deep, inclined fault below. Sacks and Linde reason that the low atmospheric pressure at the heart of typhoons can relieve some of the pressure squeezing the fault and keeping it from slipping. Earlier this year, some climate researchers warned that the climate system could be so sensitive to rising greenhouse gases that the next century would see truly scorching heat. In simulations with extremely high sensitivities, they found unrealistically large temperature swings between winter and summer region by region.