According to NASA’s CloudSat satellite Helene, a CAT3 hurricane, is more than 1000 km across. Latest forecast do not expect a landfall, direction northeast is assumed within 3 days. Photo taken by Daily Terra, 2006-09-19 14:15 UTC.
Two thousand scientists, in a hundred countries, engaged in the most elaborate, well organized scientific collaboration in the history of humankind, have produced long-since a consensus that we will face a string of terrible catastrophes unless we act to prepare ourselves and deal with the underlying causes of global warming.
Al Gore, National Sierra Club Convention, 2005-09-09