Coffee in Madrid wrote:
In article .com,
"Weatherlawyer" wrote:

We haven't had a hurricane Bush thread for a while and it is the right
season, so here we go again:
http://www.current.tv/pods/supernews/PD00567

If hurricane seasons correlate to current US politics, then yes... this
season (gov't) is indeed, a dud.

Quite. And as if to hide the palling there is yet more bad news over in
the land of fi

"Choking smoke was interrupting air and ship transportation in and
around the islands of Sumatra and Borneo in early October 2006.

Fires on the two islands were churning out a blanket of haze that
mingled with clouds and reduced visibility to unsafe levels. In
addition to their immediate impacts on air quality and human society,
fires in tropical lowland forests affect increasingly threatened
habitat for rainforest plants and animals, including the endangered
orangutans."

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/New...3?img_id=17423

Singularly more important than the events in North Korea but widely
unreported in a world that utilises illegally felled trees.

The difference is that with deforestry, the damage will escalate in a
region where natural disasters are common and the governments are just
as criminal. And this puts at risk all the orangutans.

With the new nuclear power, the risk is from a chimpanzee.

It took the UK about 10 years to recover from the deficits imposed on a
crippled economy WW II, in order to produce nuclear capabilities. The
North Koreans are suffering similar depredations now to do the same.

I wonder how long it would take a country like the USA to rebuild a
city like New Orleans if the president wasn't an idiot. 6 months? A
year at most, for the main work.