Jimbo,
That was really interesting! Thanks for taking the time to give us some background. I always figured it wasn't the slam-dunk that Algore said it was (sorry Al, I know if you hadn't invented the internet we wouldn't EVEN be able to be having this discussion!). I look forward to hearing more from both sides of the discussion but I think you are correct.......the evidence is too skimpy, and getting skimpier, to make drastic policy judgements that seem premature. To postulate that this is the first of the global warming hurricanes is ridiculous, it seems to me. Chicken little, Chicken little.......

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. - George Will
"It's not that liberals aren't smart, it's just that so much of what they know isn't so" -Ronald Reagan