There'll Be A Change in the Weather...

McCarthy wrote this article perhaps too soon to include the twenty-seventh tropical Atlantic storm, Zeta (Tropical Storm Zeta Shatters Records), in his count. It is only the sixth December tropical storm since we have been keeping track of such weather history, a tropical storm outside the perameters of tropical storm season, a full month after the season had officially ended. This article was published in the UK paper, The Independent, on Friday. I'm directing you to the whole thing via a link on Common Dreams. It's quite startling to read this mounting accumulation of evidence of climate change so starkly and succinctly put.

Review of the Year: Climate Change
Mercury rising, stormy weather - our world is taking a battering
by Michael McCarthy

You see it in heat, you see it in ice, you see it in storms. Climate change without doubt became the critical environmental issue of 2005. The evidence of global warming occurring here and now mounted up during the year and is proving ever harder to ignore, even by habitual sceptics.

The past 12 months have been one of the hottest periods ever recorded. When all the figures are in, this may prove to have been the warmest year in the global temperature record, although in mid-December British meteorological scientists were saying it was still just exceeded by 1998. Read the rest of the article here.

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