What Hurricane Season?
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations prediction for the 2006 hurricane season was about as wrong as wrong can be. NOAA predicted only a 5 percent chance of a below-normal hurricane season but a below-normal season is precisely what happened. If NOAAs experts can be so wrong about an imminent hurricane season, why have any confidence in far more complex predictions of climate change 100 years into the future? Read more 4. Day of Reckoning for DDT Foes? It only took 30 years, tens of millions of lives lost, billions sickened and trillions of dollars of economic growth foregone, but the World Health Organization finally ended its ban on use of the insecticide DDT to kill malaria-bearing mosquitoes. Its great news for developing nations that want to employ the most affordable and effective anti-malarial tool. So what should happen to those environmental activists and government regulators who used junk science to have DDT banned in the first place? Read more 5. Cosmic ray s