This is global warming, says environmental chief

Super-powerful hurricanes now hitting the United States are the “smoking gun” of global warming, one of Britain’s leading scientists believes. Hurricanes were getting more intense, just as computer models predicted they would, because of the rising temperature of the sea,…

Rita to stall after landfall?

NHC. 11 PM EDT Thu Sep 22 2005 Rita is about to pass over another eddy of high ocean heat content. Combining this with the possible contraction of the outer eyewall during the next several hours…Some restrengthening is forecast in…

Rita

HurricaneNow and Hurricane Track will be meeting up in Lake Charles to video and report on the Rita. HurricaneNow reports – Well, we have taken a disaster that could have begun with the arrival of a hurricane and have found…

Hurricane aid used ‘to test out rightwing social policies’

President Bush’s multi-billion dollar reconstruction plans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina are being used as “a vast laboratory” for conservative social polices, administration critics claim. The White House strategy involves the suspension of a series of regulations guaranteeing the…

Global warming news

Hurricanes. Global warming is to blame The chart tells it all. The percentage of hurricanes at Cat 4 and 5 has been steadily increasing since 1974. Heatwave study raises new global warming fear Global warming could reduce harvests and plant…

Podcasting menace strikes

Goodness dear, it says in the newspaper today that the youth of America are creating and listening to podcasts about, now hold on and brace yourself, sex. Who would have thought THAT would ever happen.