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  No need to apologize.

  Thanks, greenlantern, but fear not that you'll all be judged by jabailo's example.
  

  We have plenty of the home-grown variety down here.  Blessedly, their influence appears to be waning on both sides of the border.  The dogs bark, but the caravan, after all, moves on.
  

  As to Svensmark -- though Eli was too modest to note it, the techno-bunny has already dealt with that particular barking dog.  There's also an excellent treatment at RealClimate.  On How a conservative think tank's foray into climate policy stirred up a media hornet's nest posted 2 years, 9 months ago 25 Responses

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  Hurricanes and incompetence

  All true.  And the cautionary note about not promising to prevent chaotic, violent events is well-placed.  It's also worth noting that people and agencies may help or hurt the problem, sometimes simultaneously.  As the late Marc Reisner pointed out years before Katrina, coastal erosion in the Gulf was the biggest environmental story of the late 20th century to receive practically no notice.  The Army Corps of Engineers, after having created the heroically impressive channelization that stopped the silt and caused the erosion, was then chartered in the SELA program with mitigating its effects.  And that effort had stalled by the time of Katrina because its resources were being drained away to support -- you guessed it -- the recent unpleasantness in Iraq.On The connection posted 3 years, 1 month ago 3 Responses