Greenie Exploitation of Katrina

Here, courtesy of Tech Central are some disgusting examples of greenies denigrating the suffering of many to make false allegations about Katrina and global warming:

• Robert F. Kennedy Jr., writing on Huffingtonpost: "Now we are all learning what it's like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence which Barbour and his cronies have encouraged. Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war in the Middle East and - now - Katrina is giving our nation a glimpse of the climate chaos we are bequeathing our children."
  
  
• Jurgen Tritten, Germany's environmental minister, in an op-ed in the Frankfurter Rundschau: "By neglecting environmental protection, America's president shuts his eyes to the economic and human damage that natural catastrophes like Katrina inflect on his country and the world's economy."
  
  
• Ross Gelbspan, in the Int. Herald Trib wrote that the hurricane was "nicknamed Katrina by the National Weather Service Katrina, [but] its real name was global warming."
  
  
• And the Independent, a widely read British newspaper, reported that "Sir David King, the British Government's chief scientific adviser, has warned that global warming may be responsible for the devastation reaped by Hurricane Katrina." King contended that "the increased intensity of hurricanes is associated with global warming."

Of course, it's all bunk and an egregious exploitation of human suffering. As Tech Central's James Glassman puts it:

[These global warming advocates] ought to read their own favorite newspaper, The New York Times, which reported yesterday:

Because hurricanes form over warm ocean water, it is easy to assume that the recent rise in their number and ferocity is because of global warming. But that is not the case, scientists say. Instead, the severity of hurricane seasons changes with cycles of temperatures of several decades in the Atlantic Ocean. The recent onslaught 'is very much natural,' said William M. Gray, a professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University, who issues forecasts for the hurricane season.