Attention to anyone on Texas Gulf Coast

Global warming Swampwalker? Check out the article in the Financial Times and the Investors Business Daily recently that state global warming is not causing these hurricanes. In fact, Stanley Goldenberg, a meteorologist at National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration said: "I speak for many hurrican climate researchers in saying such claims of global warming causing this are nonsense. Katrina is part of a well-documented, multi-decadal scale fluctuation in hurrican activity." This cycle was described in a heavily cited article printed in Science magazine in 2001. In that article is a table clearly showing the 1930's, 1940's and 1950's had many more category three, four, and five hurricanes than we have seen in recent decades. Was that global warming too? Remember, in 1975 the consensus in the environmental universe predicted we were moving into another ice age! May I suggest you read the "Skeptical Environmentalist" by Borg Lomborg? Lomborg's book debunks many theories flying around by the anti growth, anti progress, environmental media.

Global warming is BS. Given that the earth is 4.5 billion years old (an assumption by the majority of scientists) it would take far far more than 100 years of record keeping to state with any certainty that global warming is in fact what the tree huggers claim it is. What we really need is fewer New York Times subscribers.
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The temperature of Earth's atmosphere has always fluctuated throughout history and it will continue to do so after we are long gone. Don't get sucked into the hype of global warming!

Yes,good luck men.....and the global warming thing is a main consideration of many of the humans on earth.Is it because we think like humans in terms of time/trends/years and not like planets and associated weather patterns who think in millions of years?How bold we are,so advanced to discuss theories[SP] known only to rocks,dirt and some rolling stones....just kidding as I am too young just now,Bob

I think anyone within a hurricane landfall target is well advised to take shelter. Having lived in Virginia Beach for most of my formative years, I've witnessed hurricane damage firsthand- but never above Category 2.

May God bless you and everyone impacted by Katrina.

As to Swampwalker's comment, well as horrible as recent hurricanes have been, this is probably part of a naturally recurring cycle. Peak hurricane occurence, categories 3-5, actually cycles every few decades. While terrible, recent events fall within expected models (unfortunately).

Not saying the Earth's not been warming...that's also a recurring cycle that can be traced back thousands of years. Recently, the Earth's been warming since the end of the last "mini-ice age" in the 1800's.

Is it making hurricanes more frequent? Probably not.

Are we making warming more pronounced through our behavior?. Probably so.