O.T. RE: Business in Coming Days was O.T. "Do Not CallList"

[Alan Barnard]

1. Act of God = no religious tone intended, it's an insurance term,
actually, meaning a natural phenomon that humans did not cause and can not
control, let alone stop.
2. Global what? In the 70's these same Chicken Little scientists were
predicting the beginning of a new ice age! Scary junk science keeps the
grant money flowing and guarantees an interview in Time Magazine, but it
does a great disservice to the integrity of all science, methinks. The
earth may be warming; increased solar activity will do that. Huge volcanos
have a measureable effect, short term.
3. Hurricane frequency and severity: Storm-specialist meteorogists will
tell you we have been in a historic lull for the last few decades. Looks
like we're just swinging back to "normal" (solar cycles again, perhaps).
4. You are correct. The results of this event were predicted precisely and
N.O. was horribly vulnerable. So .... uh ....  ?
5. Don't know about an agreement on O.T. -- sorry if folks are bothered.
I'll quit with this, unless someone wants to chat off list. But this topic
started with business confidence which directly affects all of us.
6. Hit DELETE now.

Alan Barnard
Salem, Missouri


> [Original Message]
> From: Susan Kline <skline@peak.org>
> To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Date: 09/15/2005 3:22:07 PM
> Subject: RE: O.T. RE: Business in Coming Days was O.T. "Do Not CallList"
>
>
> >Now Katrina WAS an act of God,
>
>
> Well, Alan, this IS way off topic, but one doesn't want to see God blamed 
> unnecessarily. Scientists have warned us for years and years that global 
> warming, by increasing the temperature of the Gulf of Mexico seawater, 
> leads to more frequent and violent tropical storms and hurricanes.
They've 
> also pointed out since the 1970's that New Orleans, being below sea
level, 
> was very vulnerable. Exactly what happened was predicted in detail many 
> years ago.
>
> This was not a random disaster or a divine intervention, except perhaps 
> very, very indirectly.
>
> Susan
>
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