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Record rainfall and over a thousand
dead in Mumbai. Devastating floods in central Europe. A record
hurricane season in the Atlantic, including more than $100 billion
dollars in damage from Hurricane Katrina. The summer of 2005 seems to
have witnessed more than its fair share of weather-related disasters.
And, perhaps understandably, no weather-related disaster occurs without
someone linking it to the issue of global warming. For example, Klaus
Töpfer, director of the 