Re: Some experts believe global warming is causing stronger hurricanes

2005-09-19 Thread Wesley Bruce
very cold air is drawn down from the troposphere quick freezing much of the Northern Hemisphere (a plausible explanation for finding frozen mammoths with slightly digested vegetation in their stomachs). Actually there is good evidence that the mammoths and other fauna found with them were ki

Re: Some experts believe global warming is causing stronger hurricanes

2005-09-18 Thread Jones Beene
Taylor, One important thing you didn't mention - just in case we are not yet past "the point of no return" and can take remediative action - is that laboratoy tests show that methane traps as much as 20 times more IR (heat) than does CO2. Consequently, if this is true in practice, then one t

Re: Some experts believe global warming is causing stronger hurricanes

2005-09-18 Thread Taylor J. Smith
Jed Rothwell wrote: The problem is, by the time the debate is fully settled it may be too late to do stave off a catastrophe. Alex Caliostro wrote: it is already too late http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article312997.ece Global warming 'past the point of no return' By

Re: Some experts believe global warming is causing stronger hurricanes

2005-09-16 Thread revtec
- Original Message - From: "Jed Rothwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 12:06 PM Subject: RE: Some experts believe global warming is causing stronger hurricanes > It is NEVER too late. If we -- mankind as a whole -- gets serious about &g

Re: Some experts believe global warming is causing stronger hurricanes

2005-09-16 Thread Wesley Bruce
Jed Rothwell wrote: Researchers at Georgia Tech (rah, rah!) believe that global warming is causing stronger hurricanes. See: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8002 Other articles have pointed out that other factors are at work, such as a natural 20-year cycle, but these factors are

RE: Some experts believe global warming is causing stronger hurricanes

2005-09-16 Thread Jed Rothwell
Michael Foster wrote: > The problem is, by the time the debate > is fully settled it may be too late > to do stave off a catastrophe. We must > act on the basis of incomplete and > unsure information. But Jed, isn't that exact logic W used to invade Iraq? Exactly! I agree there is a risk of m

RE: Some experts believe global warming is causing stronger hurricanes

2005-09-16 Thread Michael Foster
Jed wrote: > The problem is, by the time the debate > is fully settled it may be too late > to do stave off a catastrophe. We must > act on the basis of incomplete and > unsure information. But Jed, isn't that exact logic W used to invade Iraq? (The devil made me write this. I have no control

RE: Some experts believe global warming is causing stronger hurricanes

2005-09-16 Thread Jed Rothwell
Alex Caliostro wrote: The problem is, by the time the debate is fully settled it may be too late to do stave off a catastrophe. it is already too late http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article312997.ece It is NEVER too late. If we -- mankind as a whole -- gets serious a

Re: Some experts believe global warming is causing stronger hurricanes

2005-09-16 Thread Craig Haynie
I was amused to note that journalist and self-appointed atmospheric expert researcher Charles Krauthammer dismissed the very idea of that global warming may have contributed to the ferocity of the Katrina hurricane. I would like to ask him what he based to that claim on, and how many papers in

RE: Some experts believe global warming is causing stronger hurricanes

2005-09-16 Thread Alex Caliostro
From: Jed Rothwell The problem is, by the time the debate is fully settled it may be too late to do stave off a catastrophe. it is already too late http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article312997.ece -alex ___