Hurricanes and Global Warming

Hurricane Katrina is being called the worst Disaster in America. Second only to The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 and it may even be worse than it. Hundreds maybe even thousands are dead. It’s being called Armageddon, and a storm of Biblical proportions. And this all has a ring of truth. Katrina hit Florida, Alabama and Louisiana and Mississippi.

New Orleans has become a place of anarchy. Fights and fires broke out all over. Many feel they won’t get out of New Orleans alive. The massive hurricane has created panic it’s everywhere with people looting and raping. It will take many years to recover from this disaster. Looking at the imagines it’s so hard to imagine it is in America it’s like experiencing September 11th 2001 all over again. But its mother nature this time. And this time there is no help immediately there to aid the citizens and get them out of this disease ridden place. People are dehydrating and dieing babies are dieing.

Last year the National Geographic magazine wrote about a disaster simulation which predicted that 50,000 people might die in the city in a Category Five Hurricane, which Katrina was for a time.

Storms are getting worse with each one. We need to find a way to do something about Global Warming which is making storms more severe. I live in Ohio we don’t have to worry about hurricanes but we do have tornados and these to be increasing. It’s only a matter of time before we see a major tornado turn into a disaster beyond compare somewhere. Katrina I’m sure is just a glimpse of things to come.

Climatologists predict that powerful storms may occur more frequently this century, while rising sea level from global warming is putting low-lying coasts at greater risk. Scientists say rising global atmospheric temperatures have been slowly raising ocean temperatures, although they still vary widely from year to year. The evidence linking global warming and hurricane intensity might be fuzzy, but it highlights a potential issue worth examining right away.

The past 10 years have been the most active hurricane seasons on record, and many researchers say the trend could persist for another 20 years or more. They believe it’s a consequence of natural salinity and temperature change in the Atlantic’s deep current circulation.

But for now we need to concentrate on helping the victims of Katrina. It is horrible conditions there. People need food, clothes, and places to live, some way to get life back to some sort of normalcy.

Hurricane Katrina has caused a tragic disaster on the Gulf Coast, and uncounted amounts of poor people in dire need of help. This is where the Guard should be in our country, working for our country and helping our country. Instead, they are in a far away land risking there very lives for something that even if you believe was a good thing to do should have been over by now or at least under control if it had of been planned right.

I believe in helping everyone in need if you can. But we need to worry about are fellow Americans first. We need to help these people and try and make things better for all America and we need to address the Global Warming problem.