Global Warming causes Hurricanes

The 1938 "Labor Day Hurricane" whipped out parts of Wood's Hole, Buzzards Bay, New Bedford and Providence. This devastating hurricane drove through the northeastern United States like Katrina did in the Gulf Coast last Fall. Residents here are unprepared for the storm and the flooding it brought. Over 600 people were killed, most by drowning. Another hundred were never found. Property damage was estimated at $300 million (that's in 1938 dollars) with over 8,000 homes are destroyed, 6,000 boats wrecked or damaged and Cape Cod cut off from the rest of the world for days.

Senator Kennedy's ocean view is about to change

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t's no longer that alarms of overwrought environmentalists, it's today's Wall Street Journal and yesterday's New York Times.

The photo above shows the tidal surf beating down a building in Woods Hole. In the aftermath of the Hurricane of 1938, more aspects of the disaster became clear. Drinking water was potentially contaminated. Twenty thousand miles of electric and telephone lines had been knocked down, cutting off entire communities from the outside world. Police, firemen and other service crews were working constantly, often improvising at tasks they were not trained for.

Both newspaper articles below headline reports from unimpeachable sources like Science magazine, the National Snow and Ice Data Center and NASA warning America that it's time to stop listening to our selfish, senior senator, and tell every politician who hopes to get your vote in November that we want them to do all in their power to advance not only our own Cape Wind project, but every other available renewable energy resource while we still have the time to save Cape Cod.

In 1938 Cape Cod didn't have time. The first indication of the disaster to come was when a fisherman on the south shore of Long Island looked south and saw a seventy foot high ocean surge heading for him.

The surge came within a mile of crossing Long Island. Barns in Vermont were turned white by the salt spray from a storm a hundred miles away. No one knew the fate of  Cape Cod for days because all communication lines were down, and only a young Providence Journal cub reporter from Orleans, Mary Smith who later would found The Oracle newspaper with her husband Ed, thought to telegraph the French Cable Co. in Brest, France to ask them to contact their Orleans office for news.

Global warming will destroy Cape Cod before it harms much of the rest of the coastal U.S., we are, after all, only 70 feet above sea level at our highest point, and the only way to prevent global warming is to stop burning fossil fuels as fast as possible. It's that simple.

Read the two articles in these great newspapers, and then let your elected Representatives know how you feel.