Beta

Fact: we've reached a tipping point in the world's climate. The Amazon this year went from a carbon sink, to a carbon emitter (warming has caused the forests to die, releasing CO2 it would normally absorbe or hold back).
Imagine this: that 2006 is worse, climate wise than 2005, and 2007 is worse still. 2008, unbelievably, has even higher average temperatures and a series of the worst and most destructive Hurricanes ever recorded. 2009 puts all human activity on the defensive, including wars, as man scrambles to simply shelter and feed himself. Then comes 2010, where electricity grids in many corners are destroyed by fires or floods weeks after being re-erected. In 2011 people in huge numbers begin to die of heat stroke in the summer seasons on both sides of the equator... Far fetched?

Tropical storm Beta triggers warnings
MIAMI, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- Tropical storm Beta was gathering strength Thursday, prompting hurricane watches and warnings in Colombia and Nicaragua.

At 11 a.m. EDT, the center of the storm was 175 miles east of Nicaragua with sustained winds of 50 mph and higher gusts. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said the system was gaining strength as it drifted northward, and would likely become a hurricane by Thursday night or Friday morning.

Forecasters warned Beta could produce 15 inches of rain over western Panama, Costa Rica and Nicaragua, with isolated amounts up to 20 inches.

Beta, the 23rd Atlantic storm of the season, developed just three days after Hurricane Wilma raked the Caribbean, Mexico and Florida.