Not Just a River in Egypt


This merely underscores the need for FULL CATEGORY 5 protection for ALL cities in the United States that could be affected by hurricanes:

The record Atlantic hurricane season last year can be attributed to global warming, several top experts, including a leading U.S. government storm researcher, said on Monday.

"The hurricanes we are seeing are indeed a direct result of climate change, and it's no longer something we'll see in the future; it's happening now," said Greg Holland, a division director at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo.

Holland told a packed hall at the American Meteorological Society's 27th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology that the wind and warmer water conditions that fuel storms that form in the Caribbean are "increasingly due to greenhouse gases. There seems to be no other conclusion you can logically draw."

His conclusion will be debated throughout the weeklong conference, as other researchers present opposing papers that say changing wind and temperature conditions in the tropics are due to natural events, not the accumulation of carbon dioxide emissions clouding the Earth.

Many of the experts gathered in the coastal city of Monterey, Calif., are federal employees. The Bush administration contends global warming is an unproven theory...

Whatever the cause, computer projections indicate the warming to date--about one degree Fahrenheit (half a degree Celsius) in tropical water--is "the tip of the iceberg" and the water will warm three to four times as much in the next century, said Thomas Knutson, explaining projections from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, N.J.

Adam Lea, a postdoctoral student at Britain's University College London in Dorking, Surrey, presented research based on British, German, Russian and Canadian studies that concludes half of the increased hurricane activity in the tropics could be attributed to global warming...

Hurricane Katrina, which tore onto the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts on August 29, was the deadliest Atlantic hurricane in 77 years and the costliest ever, with property damages estimated at $75 billion.

But instead of making wise investments here, where we'd reap long term benefits, Team Bush decided to shoot their wad all at once, pissing away the treasury on their idiotic invasion of Iraq, with the added, incalculable loss of lives, both American and Iraqi. What a waste.

Add to that their infantile stubborness in refusing to acknowledge the science that quite clearly indicates global temperatures are getting warmer, and you've got a perfect storm of stupidity and mendaciousness.

Could we PLEASE get some adults to take charge?