A hurricane by any other name...
Granted, Wilma doesn't exactly conjure images of nature's fury, but the theme is worth rehashing:
The record hurricane season of 2005 continues, with Wilma's unlikely wrath poised to lash the Cuban highlands with 175 mph winds and 25 inches of rain. Recent pressure readings dropped to 882 millibars—the lowest ever recorded for an Atlantic hurricane. Thus Wilma leapfrogs sisters Rita and Katrina on the list of the strongest storm systems in history.
Just to keep the rhythm going: the Bush administration lobbied congress earlier this month to relax controls on emissions from refineries, continuting the drumbeat of deceit that we can somehow produce our way out of global warming. "The storms have shown how fragile the balance is between supply and demand in America," Bush said following a post-hurricane briefing at the Department of Energy, missing the point.
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