September 27, 2005
Hurricanes and global warming - a link?
Richard Black at the BBC:
Take the president of the world's most powerful nation. Add two intense and damaging natural storms which bring destruction to that country; then mix in the widely held view that the same nation's environmental policies are partially responsible for those storms.
In the polarised world of climate change, this cocktail has proved an irresistible temptation to organisations which campaign against President Bush's administration in support of enhanced action to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
The latest to succumb was the British newspaper The Independent, which screamed on its front page: "This is global warming", above an alarmingly portentous graphic of Hurricane Rita's projected path.
But is it global warming?
More here.
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I'm not quite sure what's going on here. No doubt we need more research done, but certainly we also need to cut back on emissions in general.
'Even Katrina's and Rita's back-to-back pounding of the Gulf Coast has a precedent. In 1915, Gray said, New Orleans and Houston areas were hit by Category 4 storms six weeks apart.
"You can't blame that on global warming," he observed.'
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'"If what looks like is going to be a horrible mess causes the extreme skeptics about climate change in the U.S. to reconsider their opinion, that would be an extremely valuable outcome.
"There are a group of people in various parts of the world ... who simply don't want to accept human activities can change climate and are changing the climate. I'd liken them to the people who denied that smoking causes lung cancer."'
Link.
Who knows? I'm still part of the crowd that doesn't think we should take chances and keep prodding at our precarious climatology 'til Mother's back breaks.
Posted by: Josh Smith | Sep 27, 2005 3:28:08 AM
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