Devastation linked to global warming [???]

[Ivan Seeking]

Scientists are claiming that the unprecedented ferocity and frequency of the hurricanes that have battered the Caribbean this year can be blamed on one factor: the unexpectedly warm water that has been building up in the Atlantic over the past year.

But some leading US meteorologists reject the idea that this heating is in turn directly linked to global warming. The real villain is the great ocean conveyor belt that ferries warm water from the Equator to the poles, they say. Man-made climate change is a peripheral issue.[continued]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/naturaldisasters/story/0,7369,1302849,00.html

[Tide]

Did you know that 16 of the worst hurricanes struck the Caribbean in the 17th century as recorded by Spanish conquistadors - before the industrial revolution was even a gleam in a capitalist's eye and even before Adam Smith himself was born? Heck, Priestley wouldn't even make his discovery of oxygen and plant use of carbon dioxide for another hundred years! :-)

http://www.frommers.com/destinations/kingston/0321010011.html

The Sun may yet be implicated in global warming!