Maybe the all the big natural disasters we've been having lately is NOT, indeed due to global warming, but In fact God saying "Get off MY lawn!!!!"
It was funny- guy I was flying with this last week (back around Mon-Tue) asked if we'd had a bunch of forest fires in Idaho this year. I told him no- pretty light year on forest fires. Well, we were on our way up to Missoula, MT. We saw a half dozen little forest fires on the way, and then when we got there we found a temporary restricted area a mere five miles east of the runway where the fire bombers and helicopters were working on- you guessed it, a fuckin' forest fire. Then we went to Jackson Hole, and there was ANOTHER fire with so much smoke the valley east of the Tetons was completely smoked in- we had to shoot an IFR approach to land and the air quality on the ground was horrendous. Got a picture but too lazy to post it right now. Next day we were on the way east, and I commented on how FL seemed to have been spared the brunt of any bad hurricanes this year. Next thing I know Irene is roaring up the coast and making landfall in the Carolinas. About Fri my copilot mentioned that I had better stop talking about the lack of natural disasters/problems, because I was obviously hexing up the whole works.
