--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > 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?
Read it again. Better yet, read it three or four times. And then don't get back to me. > > > "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/
