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	<title><![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Nature: Hurricanes ARE getting fiercer &#8212; and it&#8217;s going to get much worse]]></title>
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            <title>Comment #1 by Ted Clayton</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:08:14 -0700</pubDate>
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				I think what we really have going on here is more a case of King Canute's apocryphal folly, denying that we are subject to the forces of nature, than that nature is being provoked to heightened fury by human arrogance.

We place ourselves in harm's way, build cities where they are especially vulnerable, put up sub-par houses in Florida, allow fuel-debris to accumulate in Santa Barbara, build our homes on floodplains & cliff-tops - and then, woe-is-me, play the victim-card when the predictable happens.  

Yeah, temperatures rose in the late 20th C, and physics tells us that should help (a smidgen) to drive weather & storm cycles.  But that's not what really sets us up for the damages - that's mainly a matter of our own poor judgement.  We could have better-prepared for all these storms ... and worse.

New Orleans is built on the bed of an intermittent lake.  Galveston is on a sandbar.  Mudflat?  That's the real story here, and it repeats all across the country.
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				I think what we really have going on here is more a case of King Canute's apocryphal folly, denying that we are subject to the forces of nature, than that nature is being provoked to heightened fury by human arrogance.

We place ourselves in harm's way, build cities where they are especially vulnerable, put up sub-par houses in Florida, allow fuel-debris to accumulate in Santa Barbara, build our homes on floodplains & cliff-tops - and then, woe-is-me, play the victim-card when the predictable happens.  

Yeah, temperatures rose in the late 20th C, and physics tells us that should help (a smidgen) to drive weather & storm cycles.  But that's not what really sets us up for the damages - that's mainly a matter of our own poor judgement.  We could have better-prepared for all these storms ... and worse.

New Orleans is built on the bed of an intermittent lake.  Galveston is on a sandbar.  Mudflat?  That's the real story here, and it repeats all across the country.
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