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

[John Ross]

Item 6, should have been moved to position 1.

John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Barnard" <tune4u@earthlink.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 5:42 PM
Subject: RE: O.T. RE: Business in Coming Days was O.T. "Do Not CallList"


> 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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