Former Vice President Al Gore in an interview on NPR’s May 6 “Fresh Air” broadcast tries to tie the recent Myanmar cyclone to global warming.

“And as we’re talking today, Terry, the death count in Myanmar from the cyclone that hit there yesterday has been rising from 15,000 to way on up there to much higher numbers now being speculated,” Gore said. “And last year a catastrophic storm from last fall hit Bangladesh. The year before, the strongest cyclone in more than 50 years hit China – and we’re seeing consequences that scientists have long predicted might be associated with continued global warming.”

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2008/060508_b_Cyclone.htm

even the oceans might die

I just read this interesting article, Climate Change Chokes Oceans. here are some excerpts:

Rising temperatures have caused oxygen-starved swaths of ocean to expand over the last half-century -- a disturbing trend that, if it continues, could wreak havoc on global fisheries.

As water warms, it holds less oxygen.

"The surface warmer getting warmer means it's harder for oxygen to mix down, to the deeper parts, and that's the dominant effect," said study co-author and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researcher Greg Johnson.

"Well, there won't be an eruption in the ocean that's going to kill everyone," he said. "But if this phenomenon would spread everywhere, then the whole ocean would die. At the current rate of expansion, that's not something that would happen in 100 or 200 years -- it would be a long process."

umm.. that sounds pretty junk.