Marcus wrote:
People of the USA

The weather god apologises for the unfortunate collateral damage &
loss of
life to the people of America in his efforts to point out to your
government
that global warming is a problem.

The USA is one of the worlds largest producer of emissions
contributing to
global warming and has a government not interested in doing anything
about
it. If you do not take this hint, then the weather god will mobilise his
full forces and implement a plan for full regime change in the USA.

Drive smaller more efficient cars or learn to swim, such a simple
transportation choice !!

Kind Regards
The weather god & his war War Against Pollution




Borrowing from http://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/...0508300805.asp

If cable TV had existed in 1886, everyone in the U.S. might have been
whipped into a hurricane panic. A record seven hurricanes made landfall
that year, including a Category 4 storm that hit Texas and would have
had on-the-spot cable newscasters dramatically fighting the wind to
deliver their reports. All during the 1890s, reporters could have done
the same along the Atlantic seaboard, as it was hammered by more
powerful hurricanes than it would be in any decade except the 1950s.

Hurricane Katrina, which slammed the Gulf Coast and got
eyewall-to-eyewall media coverage, is sure to increase the sense that
there is an epidemic of hurricanes (along, of course, with an epidemic
of shark attacks and missing blond girls). Which inevitably raises the
question: "What can we do about it?" For some scientists and activists —
working on the assumption that anything they don't like must be caused
by industrial emissions — the answer is stop global warming.

There is hardly an undesirable natural event, from wildfires to
hurricanes, that former Vice President Al Gore hasn't blamed on global
warming. As if it weren't for fossil-fuel emissions, the weather would
always be predictable and pleasant. An outfit called Scientists and
Engineers for Change put up a billboard in Florida before last year's
presidential election stating it starkly: "Global warming = Worse
hurricanes. George Bush just doesn't get it." Ah, yes: Why are Bush and
the neocons focused on the war in Iraq, when there is a very real threat
to the U.S. they should be addressing in the waters of the Atlantic?

Has global warming increased the frequency of hurricanes? One of the
nation's foremost hurricane experts, William Gray, points out that if
global warming is at work, cyclones should be increasing not just in the
Atlantic but elsewhere, in the West Pacific, East Pacific, and the
Indian Ocean. They aren't. The number of cyclones per year worldwide
fluctuates pretty steadily between 80 and 100. There's actually been a
small overall decline in tropical cyclones since 1995, and Atlantic
hurricanes declined from 1970 to 1994, even as the globe was heating up.

It seems that Atlantic hurricanes come in spurts, or as the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration puts it in more technical
language, "a quasi-cyclic multi-decade regime that alternates between
active and quiet phases." The late 1920s through the 1960s were active;
the 1970s to early 1990s quiet; and since 1995 — as anyone living in
Florida or Gulfport, Miss., can tell you — seems to be another active phase.

But if hurricanes aren't more frequent, are they more powerful? Warm
water fuels hurricanes, so the theory is that as the ocean's surface
heats up, hurricanes will pack more punch. An article in Nature — after
questionable jiggering with the historical wind data — argues that
hurricanes have doubled in strength because of global warming.
Climatologist Patrick Michaels counters that if hurricanes had doubled
in their power it would be obvious to everyone and there would be no
need to write controversial papers about it.

Indeed, if you adjust for population growth and skyrocketing property
values, hurricanes don't appear to be any more destructive today.
According to the work of Roger Pielke of the University of Colorado, of
the top five most destructive storms this century, only one occurred
after 1950 — Hurricane Andrew in 1992. An NOAA analysis says there have
been fewer Category 4 storms throughout the past 35 years than would
have been expected given 20th-century averages.

None of this data matters particularly, since proponents of global
warming will continue to link warming with hurricanes. It generates
headlines in a way that debates about tiny increments of warming don't.
And it feeds a conceit that is oddly comforting: that whatever is wrong
with the world is caused by us and fixable by us. Alas, it's not so.
Mother Nature can be a cruel and unpredictable mistress, and sometimes
all we can do is head for the high ground.