I’m scared.
Published by Quin August 31st, 2008 in Punkass!
The things you miss by living in another country. And not watching the news. I had no idea about this til now. I’m presuming that in America, Gustav is getting wall-to-wall coverage, and everyone is collectively biting their nails.
Global warming. Things are getting real.
Biting nails, yes, but my understanding is that the effect of global warming on the hurricane season isn’t so clear-cut; storms this bad have always been coming along. The most significant human costs of global warming are elsewhere.
You may be right about the most significant human costs being elsewhere– most specifically, in how changing weather patterns (combined with increasingly rare petroleum to grease the wheels of agriculture) could wreak havoc on our ability to feed as many billions of people as we do now.
As for the global warming/hurricane link debate, it (unlike the existence of global warming itself) rages on as a bona-fide rough and tumble scientific debate. So I guess you’re right, you and I being non-experts, it’s a bit premature for either of us to pick sides in the matter.
Still, I stand by my final statement. REGARDLESS of whether it fueled Katrina and Gustav. Global warming. Things are getting real.