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.
People tend to focus on the here and now. The problem is that, once global warming is something that most people can feel in the course of their daily lives, it will be too late to prevent much larger, potentially catastrophic changes.