M. Adam Davis wrote:

>I would like to clear this up right now:
>
>http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Landsea/downward/
>  
>
But....check also http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/~tk/glob_warm_hurr.html, 
which says (quote):

> The strongest hurricanes in the present climate may be upstaged by 
> even more intense hurricanes over the next century as the earth's 
> climate is warmed by increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the 
> atmosphere

So how in the ever-loving world did you "clear it up???"



>> PLEASE cite resources indicating that hurricane frequency OR intensity
>has gone up over the last century.
>
I don't believe we are discussing the last century.  Did I miss something? 

>
>> Even the most ideology-driven bean-counter DID look at $131 millon on
>the one hand, and A STATISTICAL LIKELYHOOD of $200 billion on the
>other hand, and make a sensible (or so it seemed at the time) choice.
>  
>
Sensible to whom, pray tell????

>> 1) Yes, the response could have been better.  However it is not
>necessarily due to the current administration
>
It is.  A fish rots from the head down.

>3) Stem cell research.  We sunk billions into fusion when it was at
>the beginning of its research, and got nothing despite the revolution
>it *promised* us.  I say let the privately funded organizations and
>other countries have a crack at it.  Once it produces practical
>results the government will be all over it.  Until then, especially
>since there are unresolved ethical questions surrounding it, let's
>wait and see.
>  
>
Well, I agree that privately funded organizations and other countries 
are actively pursuing it.  South Korea seems to be moving right along.  
So then it is OK to let other countries take the lead on scientific 
research???  Perhaps it is, but seems to me that it is going to put us 
way behind.  And I just happen to think that is bad.

>> Any extreme is generally bad.  The pendulum will swing the other way
>as it always does - just be patient.
>  
>
Ever see the cartoon of the two buzzards sitting on a tree, and one 
saying to the other:  "Be patient hell!  I'm going out and kill 
something!"  :-)

Anyway...we cannot solve the problems on the world on the piclist, and I 
most certainly hope that no one feels personally attacked by anything 
that I say -- it is definitely not meant that way.  I have a lot of 
respect for all of you, whether you might have strange views of things 
or not.

John
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