I did try to preface my comments with other information, I can understand where you might have gotten the wrong idea.
I am one of the Admins @ one of the popular weather boards... I do keep up with this stuff a lot, and I always saw part of our mission being getting the crucial information out to the people who need it.
I was deeply saddened when Katrina was marching towards the coast, the images after the fact brought tears to my eyes. I do not wish harm on anyone, nor will I ever do so.
Forgiving and forgetting is good. Sorry if I came across the way I did to you.
Group hug - I like both of you too much to see a spat around here where you are needed to get us Floridians through this storm.
nwctwx, your insights on hurricanes and weather are highly valued; I think most of us who follow these threads wish, if anything, that you would post even more often.
It kind of reminds me of Dr. Neil Frank, director of the NHC back in the 70's and 80's, now a Texas TV weatherman. You could tell by watching Dr. Frank on television that he was just completely fascinated by hurricanes and loved talking about them. Yet he constantly warned people of what to expect, and constantly worried that millions of folks were moving into vulnerable coastal areas without really knowing what could happen. I miss his broadcasts.
Weirdly, while searching for a photo of Dr. Frank, which I could only find the one I posted a few weeks ago, I also found that he is not a believer that global warming is caused by man:
"However, Dr. Neil Frank told the officials that climate change "has nothing to do with carbon dioxide."
He said he saw "nothing in the data - not numerical models - that would force us into a rapid decision cutting back on emissions and impose an economic disaster on this nation."
Frank is former director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami and now chief meteorologist with television station KHOU in Houston.
Concerns over global warming from the enhanced greenhouse effect are based on computer models of the atmosphere's processes. Those models' results should be treated with skepticism, Frank said.
"I can't put faith in a three-day forecast," he said, yet scientists are making predictions about what the climate will be in two centuries using more simplified models of the atmosphere than are used for the short-term, daily weather forecasts.
"The atmosphere," Frank said, "is too complex, and the computers are too slow," even supercomputers, to forecast the very long-term future with any skill.