Message #54761

[peana]

Whether or not you believe human interefence has caused the temperature to increase, the hurricane season has been unusually bad.  A quote from New Scientist re Wilma - It is the 21st tropical storm of the season, equalling the record for the annual number of North Atlantic tropical storms, set in 1933. If the storm becomes a full-blown hurricane, as predicted, it will be the 12th of 2005, tying the annual hurricane record, set in 1969. There is still a month and a half remaining of the North Atlantic hurricane season.

I no longer have the article, but I read a little while ago that scientists have linked the increased sea temperature to the increased ferocity of the storms.  It looks like weather patterns are changing for the worse and that we are experiencing global warming.  Although earth has experienced climate change throughout its history there is very little geological data that shows such rapid changes as we are now witnessing.  It is a very controversial subject and I was a sceptic in the past, but I now believe the evidence shows that we are detrimentally influencing our environment.