Global warming update: where did autumn go?(Viewpoint)
Landscape & Irrigation, November, 2005 by Roche, Jerry
One news report this past summer claimed that global warming "cannot be considered simply a theory any more."
Though I remain a skeptic, it's impossible to overlook 2005's atypical weather.
A monster hurricane like Katrina and the fact that Florida was hit by four large hurricanes last summer are but the most extreme manifestations of recent unusual weather patterns, scientists say. Other evidence:
* a rare warm phase in the North Atlantic;
* record rainfall;
* historic record water levels in lakes;
* predictions of much higher than normal rainfall;
* extremely warm ocean currents;
* unusually high predictions of hurricane activity; and
* me playing golf one weekend...
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