Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Dust on the Wind Breakthrough


If Al Gore is such a brilliant expert how come he didn’t know this?

Dust May Dampen Hurricane Fury: Lead author Amato Evan, a researcher at UW-Madison's Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS), pored over 25 years of satellite data - dating from 1981-2006 - and noticed the correlation. During periods of intense hurricane activity, he found, dust was relatively scarce in the atmosphere. In years when stronger dust storms rose up, on the other hand, fewer hurricanes swept through the Atlantic.

Since discussions about a human induced apocalypse from global warming have the scientific validity of a Kevin Barrett Textbook, allow me to engage in a level of scholarship currently tolerated at the UW Madison in the name of diversity.

Because it will soon be unarguably established by a consensus of 501(3)c and government grant recipients that sand in the air absolutely protects the coastal areas of our country, and because it is always worthwhile spending billions and billions of dollars, it is urgently imperative that we immediately act to clear all of our shorelines of vegetation. Beaches baby!