Global Warming Behind Hurricanes

Experts, including many in government service where the official policy is still one of denial, are telling the American Meteorological Society's 27th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology that increased storm activity is due to global warming.

"The hurricanes we are seeing are indeed a direct result of climate change and it's no longer something we'll see in the future, it's happening now," said Greg Holland, a division director at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.

Holland says that admitting global warming is increasingly a cause for hightened storm incidence and activity is "the only logical conclusion".

So expect the wingnuts, illogical as always, to go into full denial mode.

America is the only nation on the planet where a sizeable proportion of the population deny the reality of global warming. Mind you, its also the only nation where a sizeable proportion think the earth is only 6,000 years old, don't accept the scientific fact of evolution, believe the death penalty is right but abortion or stem cell research are wrong and where a sizeable (and vocal) proportion think America has a divine mandate to export the viewpoints of that same proportion at gunpoint.