When discussing any particular disaster and its relationship to Global Warming, one needs to be cautious, to avoid saying "Global Warming caused X" as it is quite difficult to show a direct cause and effect relationship with a global trend to any particular activity. Thus, stronger storms are correlated with rising temperature which correlated with a storm like Katrina.  Did Global Warming cause Katrina?  Who knows?  Was Katrina's strength, differentiation from past storms, within what Global Warming analysis/modeling suggests could happen? Yes.

Well, be careful if anyone says that Global Warming "caused" the California fires.  On the other hand, it seems clear that Global Warming is a contributing factor to the conditions in which the storms have occurred.

On two consecutive days this week, disaster visited Fort Meade, an Army facility located north of Washington, D.C.  On Thursday, two people died when a small plane crashed nearby and Friday, a six-alarm blaze struck one of the facility's buildings.

The chances of such a convergence must be remote. Still, the events might have drawn little notice beyond the local community were it not that Fort Meade is home to the Army's largest counter-intelligence unit, criticized for its domestic surveillance of peaceful activist groups. This fact, irregularities in accounts of the incidents, and evasiveness by government officials invite closer scrutiny of the unfortunate events.