Thanks to Member Jeff Catlett for the tipoff on this article http://www.msnbc.com/news/218737.asp WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 � Violent weather has cost the world a record $89 billion this year, more money than was lost from weather-related disasters in all of the 1980s, and researchers in a study released Friday blame human meddling for much of it. -- ============================================================== Jesse Ferrell - Meteorologist/Web Dev. - j{at}weatherwatchers.org Central Atlantic Storm Investigators - www.weatherwatchers.org