This increased speed is offset, however, by the atmospheric rotation at the upper levels in the atmosphere and the effects of the Sun on Venus' air pressure.
Levels in the atmosphere continue to climb.
And as carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere keep on rising, so will the numbers of incidents".
This, in turn, occurred against a background of global warming linked to rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.
Scientists had expected the amount of CO2 absorbed would increase in line with rising levels in the atmosphere.
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are still at the highest levels since humans first walked the earth.
If greenhouse-gas levels in the atmosphere increase, all other things being equal, the earth's temperature will rise.
In a recent Congressional hearing on global warming, he said, "The CO2 levels in the atmosphere are rather undramatic".
Another note relates that in that time, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have continued to rise.
"The things that control the number of cyclones are other things like the wind speeds at different levels in the atmosphere," he said.
Rapidly rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are causing a potential catastrophe in our oceans as they become more acidic, scientists have warned.
