Wrath of Katrina

And God looked down on the wicked people of New Orleans, and it displeased him greatly. This once devout city, had become a portal to perdition. Where there was once churches teeming with the faithful, there was now drinking and debauchery, Voodoo and Girls Gone Wild. He sent a Hurricane to open the levees, and a deluge enveloped the streets, so that the sinful could walk them no more. Just like Babylon, Sodom, and Gomorra, the wrath of God destroyed an entire city for the sins of her people.
I know this sounds silly, and outside of a handful of religious zealots, this kind of talk is considered hateful and ignorant. But there is a group of people who are saying the same thing: that Katrina was the result of men turning their back from God, and engaging in excess.
The clouds had barely parted before Leftists rushed to blame human activity for Katrina. On August 30, while the flood waters were just beginning to rise, Ross Gelbspan of the Boston Globe said, "The hurricane that struck Louisiana and Mississippi on Monday was nicknamed Katrina by the National Weather Service. Its real name is global warming."
Many environmentalists blame the United States refusal to sign the Kyoto Protocol, for the global warming that supposedly led to this storm. The Kyoto Accord was short sighted, and would have been ineffective even if the United States had signed it. Ten years later it makes about as much sense to sign on to Kyoto as it would to write a cough syrup prescription for Nicole Brown Simpson.
When the Kyoto Accord was drafted, China was considered a developing nation, and exempted from the treaty. Today, China is the world's second largest consumer of fossil fuel, and they release trainloads of CO2 daily. If Kyoto were signed, most American manufacturing would have eventually moved there, in search of cheaper energy, so that net CO2 emissions would be unchanged from where they are today. Meanwhile, the American economy would have been devastated. Since the treaty would have done little or nothing to lower the CO2 levels in the atmosphere, but great damage to the American economy, then certainly Kyoto supporters must think the American economy is solely to blame for Global Warming.Such is the conclusion you must come to, If you listen to the rants of the Left.
On August 29, Twitching heroin addict Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a blog post: "As Hurricane Katrina dismantles Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, it’s worth recalling the central role that Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour played in derailing the Kyoto Protocol and kiboshing President Bush’s iron-clad campaign promise to regulate CO2."
He also thinks that his knowledge is based on science, rather than nervous paranoid delusions. He said , "Well, the science is clear. This month, a study published in the journal Nature by a renowned MIT climatologist linked the increasing prevalence of destructive hurricanes to human-induced global warming."
But the science is not clear. I wonder if he even read the article he cites. A quick perusal of that Nature article in ques tion, written by Kerry Emanuel, a professor of atmospheric science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, indicates that Bobby Junior, is as adverse to intellectual curiosity, as his uncle Teddy was to swimming underwater. It turns out that Kerry Emanu el believes that there has been no increase in the "prevalence of hurricanes." From the article:
"Global climate model predictions of the influence of global warming on storm frequency are highly inconsistent, and there is no detectable trend in the global annual frequency of tropical cyclones in historical tropical cyclone data."
In fact, Kerry Emanuel seems a little uncomfortable being cited as proof linking Katrina to global warming. In a recent Salon article he said:
"Not that many hurricanes get that powerful, but we've had hurricanes like Katrina before," he said. "Camille was about the same strength. Andrew was about the same strength. Katrina was just unfortunate, because it happened to hit a very densely populated area."
Other hurricane experts concur; Dr. Chris Landsea, of NOAA; the nations foremost expert on Hurricanes said in his resignation letter to the IPCC: : "All previous and current research in the area of hurricane variability has shown no reliable, long-term trend up in the frequency or intensity of tropical cyclones, either in the Atlantic or any other basin."
In the August 30 New York Times, Dr. William M. Gray, a professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University said recent hurricane activity, "is very much natural"
Apparently, the belief that hurricanes are the result of global warming is based on nothing more than faith, or in other words, "religion." Most of the Left believes that nature is avenging man's habit of indiscriminate pollution. It's a story as old a religion itself: Zeus gets angry for Prometheus stealing fire, Yahweh is mad that Eve bit the apple, and RFK Jr. is mad that commoners are riding around in limousines nowadays.
It is not your standard biblical sins that caused this cataclysm, but the sin of consumption. It wasn't fornication and bacchanalia that brought the wr ath of the goddess, but the modern sins of SUVs and air-conditioning, eating at Mc Donalds and shopping at Wal Mart. Yes, the All American lifestyle created this storm.
It's time to place the Environmental Apocalysts, into category of disdain , with bible salesmen, snake oil merchants, and charlatans.