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With the US Commerce Department now issuing reports
that show global climate change as a likely cause of
bigger hurricanes, isn't it time for the US to sign the
Kyoto Treaty?

Just for starters?  

Especially given that we're already seeing how
enormously destructive hurricanes can be to American
lives and American property interests, as in this
year's four hurricane hits in Florida?

> Just to recapitulate, the new computer model of hurricane behavior
> indicates that over time, global climate change should produce
> stronger hurricanes.  However, it's not clear whether there are likely
> to be any more of them.  
> 
> A report on the model's finding is available
> in The Journal of Climate online at 
> 
> www.gfdl.noaa.gov/reference/bibliography/2004/tk0401.pdf.
> 
> The two authors of the report are Robert Tuleya, who recently
> retired from the Commerce Department's Geophysical Fluid
> Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton University, and Dr. Thomas R. Knutson,
> a Princeton professor.  
> 
> In the article that "Economic Democracy" reprinted, the Tuleya/Knutson
> findings receive somewhat favorable comments from Dr. Kerry
> Emmanuel of MIT and Dr. James B. Elsner, a scientist studying
> hurricane behavior at Florida State University.
> 
> I'll repeat a question raised before:  how credible are
> Tuleya, Knutson, Emmanuel and Elsner - compared, say, to
> the greenhouse warming skeptics?  
> 
> And how credible are MIT, Princeton University and the
> Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton University?  
> 
> When these individuals and institutions think they've found
> a connection between global climate change and hurricane
> intensity, how seriously should their findings be taken by the
> public?
> 
> >   > But like Dr. Emanuel, he also emphasized that the extraordinary
> >   > complexity of the oceans and atmosphere made any scientific progress
> >   > "baby steps toward a final answer."
> >   >
> >   >
> >   > http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/30/science/30hurricane.html
> >   >
> >   >
> >   > DON'T MOURN, ACT! WEBSITES FOR ACTION:
> >   >
> >   > http://www.earthshare.org/get_involved/involved.html
> >   > http://www.gristmagazine.com/dogood/climate.asp
> >   > http://www.greenhousenet.org/
> >   > http://www.solarcatalyst.com/
> >   >
> >   > Overview and local actions you can take: http://www.PostCarbon.org
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