THE HURRICANE When the year began with a two-foot snowfall in Los Angeles, the cause When 124-mile-an-hour winds shut down nuclear plants in Scandinavia and When a severe drought in the Midwest dropped water levels in the Missouri In July, when the worst drought on record triggered wildfires in Spain When a lethal heat wave in Arizona kept temperatures above 110 degrees And when the Indian city of Bombay (Mumbai) received 37 inches of rain As the atmosphere warms, it generates longer droughts, more-intense downpours, Well, duh! When an organism gets Amidst all this destruction and human misery, it is nice to see some people getting what they asked for. All the party animals who ignored the authorities and decided to “ride it out” and party hearty, including some idiots who actually headed to the area from elsewhere for the “experience,” are waking up today to the reality of being trapped in an unescapable hell of 100 degree heat, no electricity, no water, dirty, wet cloths, rank, chemical-laden, undrinkable water everywhere, dead bodies floating by, disease rampant. Hard to keep the party going under those circumstances, but its no coincidence that the first places to be looted were liquor and drug stores.<\/em><\/p>\n from the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ross Gelspan, in the Boston Globe, argues that not only Katrina but all the weird weather we’ve been experiencing, are by-products of global warming, and he’s not a crackpot… THE HURRICANE that struck Louisiana yesterday was nicknamed Katrina by the … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/weirdweather.gif\")
Ross Gelspan, in the Boston
\n Globe<\/a>, argues
\n that not only Katrina but all the weird weather we’ve been experiencing,
\n are by-products of global warming, and he’s not a crackpot…<\/em><\/p>\n\n
\n that struck Louisiana yesterday was nicknamed Katrina by the
\n National
\n Weather
\n Service.
\n Its
\n real name
\n is global warming.<\/p>\n
\n was global warming.<\/p>\n
\n cut power to hundreds of thousands of people in Ireland and the United
\n Kingdom, the driver was global warming.<\/p>\n
\n River to their lowest on record earlier this summer, the reason was global
\n warming.<\/p>\n
\n and Portugal and left water levels in France at their lowest in 30 years,
\n the explanation was global warming.<\/p>\n
\n and killed more than 20 people in one week, the culprit was global warming.<\/p>\n
\n in one day — killing 1,000 people and disrupting the lives of 20 million
\n others — the villain was global warming.<\/p>\n
\n more-frequent heat waves, and more-severe storms.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n an infection, it runs a fever to fight back. Something tells the Dowbrigade
\n that Katrina is
\n not going to be the last killer hurricane of this star-crossed season. What
\n really surprized meteorologists is how quickly Katrina ramped up from
\n a nasty cat 1 to a killer cat 5 within hours after hitting the super-heated
\n Gulf waters. The water in the Gulf of Mexico isn’t getting any
\n cooler; it’s temp is 90 degrees and rising, and any storm which wanders
\n into this hot box over the remaining six weeks of hurricane season is
\n going to experience the same super-charging. We predict that hurricane
\n measuring scheme is going to need a couple of new categories. Meanwhile,
\n insurance
\n company executives must be shitting bricks trying to figure out how to
\n protect their assets…..<\/p>\n