Wind or fury?"The Wind and the Fury" (SN: 9/17/05, p. 184) states, "In 2004, Florida suffered its worst hurricane season Hurricane season refers to a period in a year when hurricanes usually form. For more information see: Tropical cyclone#Times of formation. For a lists of past seasons, see:
adj. Of, relating to, or being the geographic areas adjacent to the Tropics. subtropical Adjective of the region lying between the tropics and temperate lands storms that formed in the North Atlantic basin last year strengthened into hurricanes, 6 of them actually became major hurricanes and only 4 of these hurricanes--Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne--directly affected Florida. According to the National Hurricane Center The U.S. National Hurricane Center, located at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, is the division of National Weather Service's Tropical Prediction Center responsible for tracking and predicting the likely behavior of tropical depressions, tropical storms and , only six hurricanes struck the United States at all last year. SEAN n. 1. A seine. See Seine. POTTER, CHEVY CHASE, MD. I have spent the past 30 years as a geoscientist studying the history of Earth and take great exception to a statement in the article: "Scientists are divided on whether climate change, induced by industrial and automotive release of carbon dioxide carbon dioxide, chemical compound, CO2, a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that is about one and one-half times as dense as air under ordinary conditions of temperature and pressure. and other greenhouse gases, is driving these statistics." This sentence states that there would be no climatic warming without mankind's use of fossil fuels. While that belief may be politically correct politically correct Politically sensitive adjective Referring to language reflecting awareness and sensitivity to another person's physical, mental, cultural, or other disadvantages or deviations from a norm; a person is not mentally retarded, but , it is certainly not scientifically correct. About 15,000 years ago, much of North America was covered by glaciers, and those glaciers have been retreating since that time with no help from Homo sapiens. While the emission of greenhouse gases by man might be changing the rate of warming, mankind's activity certainly has not caused the warming. JOHN D. UNDERWOOD, TERRELL, TEXAS |
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