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Ärende: Eco-nuts!
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The Eco-nuts are wrong!

Econuts are wrong to blame Hurricane Katrina on Bush

By now you've probably heard about the lunatic comments of Robert E. Kennedy
Jr, (brotherhood of the Echonuts Ward Dossche and Bjorn Felten), the Cindy
Sheehans of the environmental movement, who blamed Hurricane Katrina on
President Bush and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour for not buying into the
global warming hype, and not signing up for the throughly-discredited Kyoto
Treaty.

These eco-crazy people are not alone in their delusions.

In Europe the president is being castigated for not falling in line with all
those Old World socialists eager to use the alleged warming of the world
climate to create a new world order (UN) organized along the lines laid down by
Karl Marx.

Their cynicism and political opportunism has drawn the scorn of the
widely-acclaimend British social anthropologist Benny Peiser, a fellow of the
Royal Astronomical Society whose research focuses on the effects of
environmental change and catastrophic events on contemporary thought and
societal evolution.

Here's what one of them wrote about the attacks on President Bush by the global
warming fanatics:

"Notwithstanding continuing rescue and support efforts, the calamity has
triggered a rather opportunistic and cynical reaction by opponents of the
current U.S. Administration. In an eerie development that echoes the political
exploitation of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster last December, environmental
campaigners, Green journalists and European officials are blaming (once again)
the U.S. and its people for the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.

Instead of supporting the rescue efforts, demagogues are using the human
tragedy in a futile attempt to score points. At a time of utter desolation and
misfortune, propagandists in high office and parts of the media are abandoning
America and its victims for purely political goals"

What he said next should endear him to every American: "Europeans in
particular, who have been rescued and liberated from themselves by the U.S. no
less than three times in the course of the 20th century, should feel ashamed
for kicking a friend and ally when he is down. Let me reassure our American
friends and colleagues that this pitiless mindset of environmental activists is
not representative of that vast majority of Europeans who are following the
heartbreaking events with great concern and empathy."

Nobody could have said it better. I hope Germany's environmental minister
Jurgen Trittin was listening. He blames George Bush for hurricane Katrina
despite the fact that the statistics don't show a particular increase in the
frequency of hurricanes in the U.S. in the last decades.

According to Herr Trittin, President Bush has neglected environmental
protection and shut his eyes "to the economic and human damage that natural
catastrophes like Katrina inflict on his country and the world's economy."

He and his Eco-nut pals should listen to Professor Kerry Emanuel of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who told Britain's The Independent: "I
don't think you can put this down to global warming."

Dr. William Gray, a Colorado State University meteorologist, considered one of
the fathers of modern tropical cyclone science, says worldwide weather records
were too inadequate for a thorough examination of trends. "The people who have
bias in favor of the argument that humans are making the globe warmer will push
any data that suggests humans are making hurricanes worse, but it just isn't
so. These are natural cycles," he told the New York Times.

In a 2001 paper in Science, by Stanley Goldenberg of the National Oceanographic
and Atmospheric Association (NOAA), it was explained that the Atlantic goes
through decades-long stretches where it creates extra hurricanes while there
are equally long lulls where the number of hurricanes is low.

Over recent decades we have been in a lull period. According to Professor John
Molinari of Albany's State University of New York: "We were way below normal
levels of hurricanes in the 1970s,'80s, and '90s." Now he says it appears that
Goldenberg and his colleagues were right, and that the east coast of the United
States is in a period of increased hurricane activity that could last 20 years
or more."

And George Bush has nothing to do with that. It's all Mother Nature's fault.

--

Mike Reagan

(Mike Reagan, the eldest son of President Ronald Reagan, is heard on more than
200 talk radio stations nationally as part of the Radio America Network)

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