Hurricane!

A Christian view of ecology that differs with Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.

Climate change, he says repeatedly and in a number of different ways, is the greatest moral issue of our day. For Gore and producers Laurie David and company, Sin & Evil = Global Warming & Bad Policies. Anyone who denies this is morally depraved.

Hurricane Ivan hit Grenada hard.

Earthquakes and accompanying tsunamis/tidal waves, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions tend to be cyclical. People living in areas where these things may frequent and/or occur, relatively speaking can sometimes live an entire lifetime and never experience any of the above and this often leads to a sense of complacency. In the past few years, areas that had not experienced a direct hit from a hurricane for a generation or more were given painful reminders. Hurricane Ivan clobbered the Caribbean island of Grenada in September of 2004. At the time, the people of Grenada could barely remember what a hurricane felt like.

A hurricane blog that didn't have much to blog about in 2006.

I started blogging early in 06 thanks to help and support from The Dumb Ox. In June I started GCHT thinking I would have a bunch to wrote about for the 2006 hurricane season. Well that didn't happen, fortunately.

Field Notes from a Catastrophe is a very accessible read on climate change, even for non-scientists.

And so when I first read Elizabeth Kolbert’s series of articles on climate change in the “New Yorker” in 2005 I was captivated. Field Notes on a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change is a compilation and expansion of those articles. It is the only climate book I have ever been inspired to buy — all the others seemed to rehash things I knew already, but there was something about the way Kolbert writes on climate — at once scientifically compelling and personal. And frightening. Of the many hundreds of articles I have read about climate change, Kolbert’s are the best.

Just in time for Christmas, An Inconvenient Truth.

Climate change is real, it’s accepted as a fact by a the majority of climate scientists.

The typhoon damage in the Philippines is terrible for those waiting to hear from family.

Since I don't have television in my room, You Tube has become one of my most visited sites. This morning while taking a brief break from cleaning my apartment, I watched some videos of the typhoon devastation in Bicol. I was naturally saddened by what I saw and became paranoid because I read in an on line newspaper that 4,000 people are now in evacuation sites in Tabaco. It's been 2 days since I haven't had any text message from my mother. I tried several times to contact her but it seems that there are no cellphone signals there. I am praying that they are safe.

Is climate change the reason for the unusually strong typhoon winds in the Philippines?

The recent wave of super typhoon that has rampaged through the Philippines could partly be explained by global warming. If one has noticed it, Milenyo and Reming had more winds that are stronger than ever before than rain which explains why so many houses and infrastructure were blown away instead of being submerged in floodwater.