The times (and climate), they are a changing. And not for the better. Here
is a follow-up article from Nature regarding findings that "drought that gripped
the United States, southern Europe and Southwest Asia between 1998 and 2002
was linked to ocean temperatures in the tropical Pacific and Indian oceans." A
major planetary experiment of unprecedented proportions is occuring as the
human race overruns the Earth's ecological systems. There are ecological
processes and cycles we know little or nothing of - but we require for survival -
that we are impacting and in many cases eliminating.