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Scientists at M.I.T. have clearly linked the increase in hurricane activity to global warming and global warming to “pollution released by humans.” And what’s the state of Katrina-ravaged New Orleans? It’s still sinking. The Army Corps of Engineers has finally admitted that the levees that were supposed to protect it were defective.

Ker Than writes in LiveScience.com that climatologist Kerry Emanuel will soon publish a paper that shows how global warming is responsible for the increasingly stronger Atlantic Ocean hurricanes we’ve experienced in the past few decades, but he’s made an even more courageous statement in this paper, where he says that the key to global warming is human pollution, in the form of greenhouse gases.
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Even administration apologists pretty much admit the fact that our war on drugs is a failure, since we have more addicts than ever. Mexico’s president Vincente Fox recently proposed decriminalizing drugs in his country, but quickly backpedaled when our government objected, fearing that even more drugs would flow over the border. Canadians have considered legalizing marijuana. Some state have legalized pot when it is used as medicine. But the liberal drug laws that were passed in Switzerland ten years ago have led to an 80% decline in the number of addicts there. Maybe the war on drugs is a war we should stop fighting.
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Global warming is a sad fact: NOAA weather satellite data collected from 1979 through 2005 show that the earth’s tropical zone has been steadily expanding since 1979. Researcher Thomas Reichler says, “It’s a big deal. The tropics may be expanding and getting larger. If this is true, it also would mean that subtropical deserts are expanding into heavily populated regions.”

Reichler adds, “The possible expansion of the tropics may be a totally new aspect of climate change. We don’t know for sure what triggered it. My research is investigating whether it is related to global warming or not. One can certainly think of various mechanisms of how global warming-related changes in the atmosphere could induce the changes we see.”
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