Your November 11 editorial, "Gridlock on Global Warming," states that Hurricane Mitch is "one of the many environmental upheavals that scientists relate to global warming." In reality, there is no evidence that hurricanes have been systematically increasing in recent decades (in fact, recent decades have been unusually quiet). Nor is there any credible evidence that a greenhouse-warmed world, if it were to occur, would have more or stronger hurricanes. Furthermore, despite what you might hear from the Administration, the science is by no means settled: a large number of climate scientists, including the majority of the state climatologists, believe that natural variations, not human- caused emissions, are the predominant cause of long-term climate change. Treaties such as the ones proposed in Kyoto and Buenos Aires may be simply expensive "solutions" that accomplish nothing.
George H. Taylor
President, American Association of State Climatologists
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