The good new is, IF you want to call it that is the Equatorial Air ring around the planet held. It bearly held but it held. The huge heat storm that broke off from the equator was pulled into the Antarctica vortex as was the Indian Ocean cyclone. The heat will be distributed differently around the Ice Continent rather than just damage in one area. The Equatorial air held. It didn't on February 4, 2005. Americans are consuming less fossil fuels in their internal combustion engines because it is over $2.00 per gallon. Good. Better it should be higher. We keep hoping this 'marginal' improvement continues as the solar radiation migrates north.