--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > > wrote: > > <snip> > > > As everyone knows, Hurricane Katrina was caused by Global > Warming, as > > > many scientists and Al Gore have told us. > > > > Citations, please, showing any qualified scientist > > or Al Gore ever told us Hurricane Katrina was caused > > by global warming. > > > > (You don't have to cap "global warming," Shemp, it > > isn't a proper noun.) > > Al Gore:
Yes, and where does he say Katrina was caused by global warming? > "There are scientific warnings now of another onrushing catastrophe. > We were warned of an imminent attack by Al Qaeda; we didn't respond. > We were warned the levees would break in New Orleans; we didn't > respond. Now, the scientific community is warning us that the > average hurricane will continue to get stronger because of global > warming. A scientist at MIT has published a study well before this > tragedy showing that since the 1970s, hurricanes in both the > Atlantic and the Pacific have increased in duration, and in > intensity, by about 50 %. The newscasters told us after Hurricane > Katrina went over the southern tip of Florida that there was a > particular danger for the Gulf Coast of the hurricanes becoming much > stronger because it was passing over unusually warm waters in the > gulf. The waters in the gulf have been unusually warm. The oceans > generally have been getting warmer. And the pattern is exactly > consistent with what scientists have predicted for twenty years. Two > thousand scientists, in a hundred countries, engaged in the most > elaborate, well organized scientific collaboration in the history of > humankind, have produced long-since a consensus that we will face a > string of terrible catastrophes unless we act to prepare ourselves > and deal with the underlying causes of global warming. [applause] It > is important to learn the lessons of what happens when scientific > evidence and clear authoritative warnings are ignored in order to > induce our leaders not to do it again and not to ignore the > scientists again and not to leave us unprotected in the face of > those threats that are facing us right now. [applause] " > > From: http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0912-32.htm > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
