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[JimH]

I've been watching the weather news the last couple of days and it's pretty amazing today. 

Hurricane Felix came ashore today in Honduras (Central America) as a category 5 storm (sustained winds above 150 miles per hour).

On the other coast, Henriette came ashore on Mexico's Baja Peninsula with winds of 85 mph.

The east coast will probably receive the most damage.  There are a lot of people living in low-lying areas where there only access to the mainland is by small boat, sometimes just a canoe.  I've sailed enough on the ocean to know that even 40 mph winds can be extremely challenging.  I wouldn't want to be there in a canoe when the winds were 80 or 100 mph.

A summary is here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070904/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/tropical_weather;_ylt=AhgFADGOyuTnnqOLKyImIxR34T0D

[rjm]

I have been doing a lot of reading. CO2 is definately behind the weather changes. We have to change our lifestyles. Fortunatley oil is going to become too expensive to buy very soon which will help to curb the CO2 problem.

[benn600]

It feels like its right out of those movies--bigger and bigger storms that continue devastation around the globe.  I'm still waiting for the day some of those gigantic changes that shows like NOAA and others have predicted as inevitable...several feet rise in sea levels.  Can you imagine CNN's ratings if that happened?!

[KingSparta]

what i thought was interesting this week is the story that was on NBC dateline about "Australian climber Lincoln Hall"

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/13543799/page/2/