Ravenwood - 08/31/05 08:15 AM
Okay, so I haven't had much to say about the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. Basically, I don't know what there really is to say. I certainly hope those impacted by the storm recover and rebuild. My heart goes out to them. It looks like construction workers along the Gulf Coast will be very busy for months (if not years) to come.
Then there's the nut cases. If there's one thing this storm has done is separate the environmentalists wackos from the regular folks. First of all, anyone who says the Hurricane was caused by global warming is an idiot. They probably deserve a swift kick in the nuts, but you're better off just rolling your eyes at them and walking away. The idea that man can cause hurricanes is patently absurd. Not only that, but global warming actually lessens the affects of hurricanes. All those melting ice caps and glaciers that the enviroweenies are crying about would actually cool the oceans down at the equator. But the facts don't fit the agenda, so they just make it up as they go along. It's gotten so bad that any weather event at all is attributed to global warming.
If man caused the hurricane, why didn't man stop it? Why didn't we all just stop driving our SUVs last week to make the hurricane go away? When we saw the storm coming, why not just close all the gas stations? I mean if we can cause the hurricane, than certainly we have the power to stop it.
Know this. Anyone who blames this on global warming and the actions of man is a moron and should be treated as such. Period.
Category: Global Warming
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There's an important thing to say about the news coverage. Namely that the media will never offer any analysis of anything that contradicts the laws of soap opera.
In a disaster involving lots of people, the most soap-opera-ish angle is what gets expanded on.
In short, what you are seeing reported is intended to hold audience that likes soap opera.
That hazard is that that is an input to the question of What Is To Be Done. Soap opera governs public policy thanks to the media business model.
You could listen, over most of the Eastern US at night, WWL 870 New Orleans, for the actual mood, which is pretty sane. It's not as if nobody ever lost a house before.
WWL is cut off from its network news so has to resort to common sense.
Posted by: Ron Hardin at August 31, 2005 12:13 PMGood point Ron. From the coverage that has been shown so far you would think the end of the world was near. But would you really tune in again at 10pm if it wasn't?
Posted by: Derek at August 31, 2005 1:10 PMGlobal warming is real, but it is not caused by people. We are going through a period of increased output by the sun. Look into it. That's the one and only thing that can cause the planet to heat up. This is what the sun does. When it cools off we have ice ages. Add more energy to the system and you will see more intense weather. This means colder winters, hotter summers, more intense hurricanes, and probably even more earthquakes and volcanoes. Bush's failure to sign that nightmare called Kyoto has less than nothing to do with it.
Posted by: Drew at August 31, 2005 8:49 PMWhat kind of malarkey is this who are they kidding? its like after last years tsunami those idiots at GREENPEACE tried to blame it on global warming i mean only a moron would have anything to do with this stupid GRENPEACE wussies
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