Here They Go Again!

Here They Go Again!

I saw in the paper, the other day, that a portion of the academic community is going to investigate why we had so many Hurricanes, and tropical storms, this season. They are already saying they feel it has something to do with global warning.

Well, first of all, to lean in that direction you must believe in Global Warming, which I don’t. Oh, I think it is getting warmer… but it should be! We’re still coming out of the last Ice age!

I have mentioned before that I reside in what is called the “hurricane ally” of the Carolinas. We know a little about hurricanes here because it is a matter of survival for us.

Most everybody in my neck of the woods saw this season’s large storms as no big deal because they have a tendency to grow into massive storms, out over the open ocean, and then drop back to a Category 3, or 4, just before, or just as, they make landfall. Take Katrina. It was not a Category 5, or a Category 4, when it actually struck the Gulf Coast. It was, in fact, a Category 3 storm when it came ashore.

Let’s face it. New Orleans simply was not prepared for a hurricane of any size! And, they paid the price. Let me correct that and say WE paid the price. We… meaning the taxpayers of the US.

The increased costliness of these storms can easily be explained. It can be attributed to the increased building along the hurricane coasts. If you build in the known path of storms you are going to get creamed. That's what people are doing and the Insurance companies, and the taxpayers, have been suffering the effects.

Maybe it’s time Insurance companies refuse to insure any building along the hurricane coast. If you build there, you will take responsibility for the damages when they come, as they surely will.

As to the investigations… well, call me paranoid if you must, but I have come to believe that it is simply a case of the academics needing a way to justify their existence and receive free money for the US government to fund their reason for existence. It is a vicious cycle. The only persons benefiting from such an arrangement is the academician himself... or herself.

So, in the interest of saving some "taxpayer money", I’ll take it upon myself to write the report on all their investigations right now. Here it is:

“After much concentrated effort, and exhaustive investigation and collaboration, among a host of colleagues around the world, we have concluded that the increase in the number and severity of Tropical cyclones of the 2005 tropical storm season was the direct result of global warming which increased the water temperatures of the world’s oceans. We further conclude the increase in atmospheric warming is directly related to the use of carbon based fuels which is entirely a product of human activity upon the planet”

See how easy that was? How many millions did I just save the American taxpayer?

It is, also, just that hair-brained.

So, sometime during the early spring of 2006, I predict you will see the above conclusion reported in all the world’s media. Watch for it. And laugh!

“Longstreet”