map:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Katrina2005-colorIR.GIF source Pseudo-color IRF image of Katrina in the Gulf from NASA GOES-12; processing by University of Wisconsin, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies; used by implicit permission (see note at bottom of http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/; original source from USGov).http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/ BUSHASS character handrawn, scanned then digitally processed in corel draw 12. It's estimated that global warming is contributing to the current crop of hurricanes by 1% or less - not much. The question is what's going to happen in 50 years time when global warming may - according to some estimates increase the force of hurricanes by 50% or more - unless we do something serious NOW!