check this out

http://sptimes.com/2005/09/13/Weathe...is_not_a.shtml

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"clay" wrote in message
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And the temperature of the Sun has gone up, and so (possibly) has the
tempurature of Mercury. So what exactly it seems, is the point?

looking at the graph, it appears that there is a similar pattern from
low to high from 1960 to now, as there was about the period from 1910 to
where it peaks (almost the same as now) around 1948. And then it begins
a definite downward trend for the next 25 years or so. So how do they
assume that the trend will continue to climb from this point in time on?

any ideas or basis on why the dramatic drop right after 1948?

ca

Cliff wrote:
Since 1970 the world's oceans have gotten warmer by about 1 degree
Fahrenheit.
Since 1970 the duration & intensity of oceanic storms (hurricanes,
typhoons, cyclones, monsoons & etc.) has about doubled.
Below a certain ocean temperature there can be no hurricanes.
Above that temperature their number & strength grows exponentially
it seems.

http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/20...ricaneQA.shtml
http://news.findlaw.com/wash/s/20050...919141944.html

http://www.livescience.com/forcesofn...urricanes.html

IIRC New York City is not designed to resist a Category 5 storm.

Here is a nice little chart of projected global waming:
http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/~tk/climate_dynamics/fig1.gif
NOTE THAT IT IS IN DEGREES C so do your own conversion.

The short version: by about 2050 expect a rise of 4.5 degrees F
more .... and rising rapidly.