Originally published October 16 2005
Columnist fears world leaders are ignoring warnings about the reality of global warming
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
In a recent column for the Seattle Post Intelligencer, Derrick Z. Jackson criticized U.S. leaders for ignoring the signs, provided by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, that global warming is a harsh reality, and wondered how terrible a tragedy has to occur before action is taken to prevent further consequences.
As the media scream about the one-two punch of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the question becomes how many more times does the United States need to be knocked to the canvas before we answer the bell on global warming.
In his address to the nation from a ghostly New Orleans, President Bush said, "When one resident of this city who lost his home was asked by a reporter if he would relocate, he said, 'Naw, I will rebuild but I'll build higher.'
That is our vision of the future, in this city and beyond.
He said, "Americans have never left our destiny to the whims of nature and we will not start now."
Actually, there is no better time to start understanding that nature is at the mercy of our whimsy.
Another was published last week in the journal Science by atmospheric researchers at Georgia Tech and the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Although there has been no increase in the actual number of storms worldwide, the Georgia Tech/NCAR study found the number of hurricanes that reached categories 4 and 5, with winds of at least 131 miles per hour, have gone from comprising 20 percent of hurricanes in the 1970s to 35 percent today.
The rise is much worse in the rest of the world, where millions of less fortunate people cannot flee the coast in SUVs on interstate roads.
Emanuel, who formerly doubted that hurricane intensity was tied to global warming, said he was stunned when his research showed that just that half-degree rise in tropical ocean temperatures has also seen a 50 percent rise in average storm peak winds in the North Atlantic and East and West Pacific in the past half century.
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