Not at all off topic.

A discussion all day has been about how cultural organizations might 
relate to the after effects of the latest (in a series over the last 
few years) Gulf hurricane, and clearly one very important way is to 
interpret the causes.

While there are surely other technical issues to investigate in regards 
the devastation, such as coastal urban development and the simple chaos 
of weather systems, clearly the major issue here is climate change.

Perhaps such interpretive efforts are not for a history center in 
Ithaca, but there are others reading this list.

-L.D.


On Aug 31, 2005, at 2:29 PM, Shannon Lindridge wrote:

> This is an off topic(O.T.) issue please be considerate and preface the
> subject line with "O.T."
>
> Thanks, Shannon
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of L Dewey
> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 2:16 PM
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> Subject: Katrina and global warming
>
>
> Published on Tuesday, August 30, 2005 by the Boston Globe
>
> Katrina's Real Name
>
> by Ross Gelbspan
>
> The hurricane that struck Louisiana yesterday was nicknamed Katrina by
> the
> National Weather Service. Its real name is global warming.
>
> When the year began with a two-foot snowfall in Los Angeles, the cause
> was
> global warming.
>
> When 124-mile-an-hour winds shut down nuclear plants in Scandinavia and
> cut
> power to hundreds of thousands of people in Ireland and the United
> Kingdom,
> the driver was global warming.
>
> When a severe drought in the Midwest dropped water levels in the
> Missouri
> River to their lowest on record earlier this summer, the reason was
> global
> warming.

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