Sorry, Mr President, homilies won't stop the hurricanes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1576614,00.html
We Americans need to get out of our SUVs and learn the harsh lesson of
Katrina and Rita: we are all to blame
Jeremy Rifkin
Friday September 23, 2005
The Guardian
First there was the deafening roar as Katrina bore down at 145 miles an
hour on the Gulf coast of the United States. Then the eerie silence as
New Orleans was turned into a giant ghost town. Now, a second deadly
hurricane, Rita, is hurtling toward the Texas coast with killer winds,
forcing a second mass evacuation of population in less than four weeks.
And, as more and more people begin to wonder what's happening to the
weather, it seems that all of official Washington is holding its
breath, lest the dirty little secret gets out: that Katrina and Rita
are the entropy bill for increasing CO2 emissions and global warming.
The scientists have been warning us about this for years. They said to
keep our eyes on the Caribbean, where the dramatic effects of climate
change are first likely to show up in the form of more severe and even
catastrophic hurricanes.
Jeremy Rifkin
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