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To: Road Walker who wrote (383291)	5/8/2008 2:18:35 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573197

>>> maybe deep water temperatures are warmer. No, they aren't.

To: Road Walker who wrote (383291)	5/8/2008 4:12:55 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573197

JF, > As you may or may not have noticed I'm not a huge GW alarmist... I probably should be. But one of the benefits of getting old is that you realize how often mankind is wrong when dealing with complex stuff... almost always. I'm not that old and I already realize this. Right now some in the media are comparing the disaster in Myanmar to Katrina, both in the strength of the cyclone and in the government's failure to get aid there. Yet Al Gore is spending his time exploiting the tragedy for his global warming crusade. Really, is that the most pressing concern now? Wondering whether global warming boosted this storm from Cat4 to Cat5? Tenchusatsu

To: Road Walker who wrote (383291)	5/8/2008 7:17:33 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573197

What was really freaky to me is how the storms developed and their strength. In watching storms in previous years, I had never seen them developed into majors so often, and so quickly. When a hurricane "bombs", it goes up 2-4 categories in less than 24 hours. I watched Hurricane Charley "bomb" from a weak cat 2 to a very strong cat 4 in less than 90 minutes (as it was taking dead bead on my house and was 3 hours away). Now that is one incredible increase in massive, massive power (possibly the most powerful thing in nature?). It seems like almost every storm bombs now, and I never, ever remember it happening before the '04 season. Its not just hurricanes.....its tornadoes too. So far this year we've had nearly 800 tornadoes.....the average for this time of the year is around 400. In addition, there are more 4s and 5s than normal.