Scientists are now predicting ever more frequent and severe hurricances as a result of global warming. While the Bush administration didn't start global warming, it has certainly demonstrated a complete lack of leadership by opposing international efforts to do something about it. The consequences from global warming will make the war on terror look like an afterthought:

More fierce hurricanes may loom on horizon

By Michael Coren
CNN
Friday, September 3, 2004 Posted: 12:49 PM EDT (1649 GMT)

(CNN) -- As Hurricane Frances bears down on the United States, weather trackers are sounding the alarm. Yet Frances may only be the first in a series of large, powerful storms to march across the Atlantic in coming years.

The arrival of hurricanes like Charley and Frances within weeks of each other is a rare anomaly, but some meteorologists say more storms like Frances -- both very intense and very large -- are possible.

"Over the past few years, we've seen an increasing trend toward greater activity in the Atlantic Basin and increased strength in storms," said Marshall Shepherd, a research meteorologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. "[That] has been leading us to believe that we are going to start seeing more intense hurricanes. That may be bearing itself out right now."

A combination of natural cycles and warming ocean temperatures from global warming may be fueling the destructive storms. Scientists like Shepherd employ an array of satellites, aircraft and computer models to answer those questions in their mission to comprehend the Earth's climate.

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