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Katrina and Global WarmingThe media is now finally picking up the angle of global warming. A very strongly worded editorial by Ross Gelspan in today’s Boston Globe argues Katrina’s real cause is global warming (along with flooding in Mumbai, heavy snows in SoCal, etc). The choice quote: Although Katrina began as a relatively small hurricane that glanced off south Florida, it was supercharged with extraordinary intensity by the relatively blistering sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico. Fox News counters with the loveable Pat Michaels, a UVA professor and CATO wonk, to summarize the research. (Note that he used the words: stastically significant, explanatory variable, variability explained by, and concomitant, showing why he is a professor and not a broadcaster). For the skeptical, see the $325K that ExxonMobil paid his organizations in the 2002-3. I won’t delve into the science except to try and focus on what the real issues are for both the left and the right.
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We do need to take action for the future generations no one realizes it but this is going to kill people in the long run. Because we just went through hurricane Rita and our house has two trees in it. What would have happened if we would have been home, we could have died. This is getting more and more dangerous. We need to stop it NOW!!
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Last July, I gave a presentation about global climate change at a local Toastmasters club. I mentioned that high ocean temperatures would increase the frequency and ferocity of hurricanes. I also mentioned that with higher ocean levels, a storm surge could flood many inland areas. I used New Orleans as an example, and predicted that millions of people could die, since the population of that city was some 8 million. It's good that I was wrong about the number of deaths, only about a thousand died.
Still, isn't that far too much for something that was predicted by environmentalists for years?
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It's time for protest in the streets. If we fail to act on preserving our planet, we fail on the greatest scale of life. Where are all the men and women, all the elders and teenagers? Where are all the scientist, people of all faiths and ideas? It's a tragedy that a human could walk into place of religon and pray to God to bring happiness or whatever ridiculous prayer they want answered that week, and then get up walk out of their "arena" and completely neglect the one thing that God has possibly given them, Earth. Put down the remote or the game controller, give up the so called neccesities of driving a monster truck. Please just look around and stop being so greedy. Earth is unexplainably beautiful. One of the finer qualities of Earth is its ability to recylce waste. Oil spills, deforestization, depliation of its O-zone layer, and lets not forgot about humans. We are smarter and luckier than dinosaurs. Please lets not continue in their path. Hit the streets, riot, protest. Get off your ass America.
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Or, ahem, just buy a TerraPass.
Seriously, though -- the problem is very real, and we need to think hard about concrete and constructive actions that we as individuals can take to bring about change.
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Global warming will be our biggest problem over the next few generations. regards
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