Death Toll from Earthquake at 79,000

[irishgrl]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

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without global warming Katrina would not have happened. That is assinine and completely ignores the facts and history as Cat. 5 storms have happened before Katrina

Yes but not with the same frequency.

But anbd to the point, you need to quote the whole paragraph, which fails to support that global warming was the sole cause of a cat. 5 storm:

In spite of the natural ocean cycle and global warming, the dramatic increases in U.S. hurricane damage is mainly due to the increases in coastal populations since the 1940's.
Because hurricanes are so unpredictable, no specific cost can be attributed to global warming. This means it is just as wrong to say there has been no cost as to say it was 20% or 40% of hurricane damage in recent years. Without global warming, Katrina almost certainly would not have happened, but something else would have, and it might have been worse, ... or better. We just don't know.

Again, that doesnt address the cause, it addresses the EFFECT. VERY DIFFERENT TOPICS.


By the way Brwn_eyes, the fact that you pick on tree huggers makes you just as much of an eejit as Monkey Boy. Trees are incredibly important to the health of this world, and the rape of the Rain Forests of South America is also contributing to the degradation of the checks and balances of the Natural World.