I've heard it said that only 3% of the worlds population lives on the shores
of a body of water.
By body of water I'm thinking, rivers, lakes, oceans.
That means 97% of the world has a pretty good knowledge of hurricanes,
tsunami, floods and monsoons and the damages they reek.

Stan Wilder
Engine Ceramics
214-352-4931
www.engineceramics.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Rodgers" <inua@CHARTER.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: OT Hurricanes--really an accident?

> Jim,
>
> You betcha there is a self regulating system at work. The totallity of
> our planet is nothing more that a very complex system in equilibrium,
> and it is drriven by solar energy. The single thing that is
> unprecedented in history is the rise of humans and their ability to
> impact that system in equilibrium. One of the features about
> equilibriums is that when you put pressure on it in one place, it
> self-adjusts to accomodate for the added pressure. It is automatic and
> it is physical. The consequences can be devastating for living things.
> But rest assured that the reaction of nature to what we are doing to the
> planet is normal, expected, and in time will bring things back in
> balance. Not balance as we want it, but balance as nature demands it.
> And she won't give living things any consideration in the process.
> Mother Natures  attitude is " bend with the changes, or break". no in
> betweens.
>
> If we are to survive as a species, we had better get smart and yeild to
> the lessons being taught, or we may make like the dinasaurs and simply
> disappear.
>
> Regards,
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL driver
>
> Jim Felder wrote:
>
> > Kinda like saying you were driving your vanagon at 95 and accidentally
> > threw a rod...
> >
> > Actually, it's been waiting to happen for about three centuries, and
> > "coincidentally" it "happened" when the temperatures in the gulf spiked
> > up and the poles got warm enough to slough off ice fields the size of
> > small American states.
> >
> > So maybe there's a self-regulating system at work here, not the
> > dice-rolling chance that some like to presume: ironic, isn't it, that
> > the warming of the gulf waters could be lowered by a series of
> > hurricanes that cuts supply of oil, thereby driving the price up and
> > thus lowering consumption, which results in cooling the waters and
> > weakening the effects of those hurricanes so that oil can flow freely
> > again?
> >
> > RVC: get a diesel vanagon and burn bio of any kind. No net gain in CO2.
> > No man-made increase in global warming, and IF that's the problem, then
> > we're doing all we can to solve it. The pres sez that acquiring clean
> > energy is going to ruin the economy. Looks like the weather will beat
> > us to it!
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > On Sep 21, 2005, at 4:49 AM, Andrew Grebneff wrote:
> >
> >>> In a message dated 9/21/05 1:23:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> >>> crescentbeachguitar@TELUS.NET writes:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>  Good luck Richard, I hope things aren't as bad for you as they
> >>>> were/are in
> >>>>  Louisiana and Mississippi.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Global warming is REAL..   and the hurricanes will get WORSE.
> >>> its not going to get any better folks.
> >>>
> >>> dont invest in any beachfront property is all i can say..
> >>>
> >>> chris
> >>
> >>
> >> I hate to say it, but New Orleans has been a disaster waiting to
> >> happen for decades. It wasn't a matter of if, it was a matter of
> >> WHEN. Well, it's WHEN.
> >>
> >
> >