Coastal Growth, Not Global Warming, Blamed for Rising Storm Losses
National News • February 25, 2008
A hurricane that hit Miami in 1926 would cause up to $157 billion in damage if it were to strike today, according to a recent study.
U.S. storm costs are rising because of higher populations and ...
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Subject: RE: Global Warming is real and it is a threat
Posted On: February 25, 2008, 2:13 pm CST
Posted By: wudchuck
Comment:
um.....and Al Gore supposedly invented the internet....if you look into the past, global warming is like the cycles of the weather...they have proof of that from the core samples from ice and from solid beds of rock...this planet has been through the ice ages and global warming before...
back then, we did not have cars and this much growth - so why are we so panicing now?
i agree, we do need to be careful...but if we stop tearing down rainforests, we might have the plants do their thing. we currently do not have anything mechanically that can replace what they do naturally.
Subject: RE: Global Warming is real and it is a threat
back then, we did not have cars and this much growth - so why are we so panicing now?
i agree, we do need to be careful...but if we stop tearing down rainforests, we might have the plants do their thing. we currently do not have anything mechanically that can replace what they do naturally.