Here is a connection that ought to be made. As newsgawkers throughout the country watch the only issue that has recently displaced campaign derring-do from the lead spot — Florida devastated by four successive violent hurricanes — I am surprised Kerry is not making more of an issue of the association between global warming and hurricanes.
“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. Most hurricanes do not reach their maximum potential intensity before weakening over land or cooler ocean regions. However, those storms that do approach their upper-limit intensity are expected to be slightly stronger — and have more rainfall — in the warmer climate due to the higher sea surface temperatures.” (NOAA )
Let us not forget what an utter disaster the Bush misadministration has been for protection of the environment. While issues like his torpedoing of the prospects for the Kyoto Accords are abstruse to the average voter, they understand roofs being ripped off of their neighbors’ homes.
