New Orleans and Global Warming

[DRoseDARs]

Let's limit this thread to that particular discussion.

My piece:
While Global Warming is part of Earth's natural ebb and flow and there are questions about how much Humanity has influenced it, there is no way to prove or disprove that Human activities had anything to do with this hurricane. It's been known for a long time that this day would come. As I have said elsewhere, the city of New Orleans was living on borrowed time: A direct hit on the city was inevitable. That it is a C5 and not a C1 for instance is merely (very bad) luck of the draw. Humanity's presence and meddling in nature will be much more quantifiable in the toxic aftermath. Will this turn the heat up on the debate over Global Warming and environmental degredation in general? I certainly hope so, though it's probably much too late to avert the changes that are already occuring, regardless of whether they started with or without our influence.

[Ted Striker]

Regardless if Global Warming caused this hurricane or not, this will totally put the question out there.

So yes, 100%, it's going to be a national issue. The fact that the damage was regional may or may not affect how long the strength of the national dialog lasts.

[Drake Tungsten]

The one bright point in this otherwise horrific turn of events is that we probably won't have to hear about Cindy Sheehan any more.

[DRoseDARs]

Bush's trifecta +1?

Put a sock in it, Drake. No discussion of Iraq et al here.

[Drake Tungsten]

I didn't mention Iraq.

[Ted Striker]

Iraq et al

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs
Bush's trifecta +1?

Put a sock in it, Drake. No discussion of Iraq et al here.

Oooh oooh but can I point out that the Bush Administration has steadily cut New Orlean's funds for hurricane preparedness every year since 2001, including a $71 million dollar slash in next year's budget?

[DRoseDARs]

Yes you may.

[Ted Striker]

own3d

[DRoseDARs]

Though, several thousand LA National Guardsmen who could have been stateside helping the evacuation and the cleanup are serving in a far away land, but that could have just as easily been true under different circumstances as well. So to be fair, let's not bother with that issue either.

[Chemical Ollie]

What will Fred Phelps say about Gods role in this?

[DRoseDARs]

http://www.godhatesneworleans.com/

[Dis]

This has nothing to do with global warming. There were hurricanes long before global warming came about.

[Lancer]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie
What will Fred Phelps say about Gods role in this?

Hmm, there ARE alot of Fwench there...

One bright spot is that Fort Polk might be destroyed.

[Apocalypse]

It is apparently going to hit Mississippi now and New Orleans won't be hit as bad as many predicted originally.

Going with the God thing, I might tell my evangelical, anti-Catholic ex girlfriend that God is saving the Catholics in New Orleans and attacking the Southern Baptists in Mississippi.