Posted on 09/09/2005 12:26:05 PM PDT by Caleb1411
By now you've probably heard about the lunatic comments of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Cindy Sheehan 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 thoroughly discredited Kyoto Treaty.
RFK Jr. is not alone in his 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 organized along the lines laid down by Karl Marx.
Their cynicism and political opportunism has drawn the scorn of the widely acclaimed 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 he just 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 for the 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 Jrgen Trittin was listening. He blames George Bush for Hurricane Katrina despite the fact that statistics don't show a particularly increase in the frequency of hurricanes in the U.S. in the past 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 Econut pals should listen to Professor Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who told Britain's Independent: "I don't think you can put this down to global warming."
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 a 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, it was explained that the Atlantic Ocean goes through decades-long stretches where it creates extra hurricanes while there are equally long lulls when the number of hurricanes is low.
Over recent decades we have been in a lull period. According to John Molinari of Albany's State University of New York: "We were way below normal levels for 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.
ROFLMAO
Just more INSANITY from the left. What planet did these morons come from ???
Woo Hoo. Great article!
...Ya just Can't never trust a Kennedy.
Pluto, the dog planet.
He's also very hard to listen to. His voice is very strange.
You know, nature is to blame for these things and God is in control of nature. So, we COULD blame God I suppose (smile). Bush is in good company if he and God are both causing these himmicanes.
Neither could their wives!
...or poor Mary Jo Kopechne, GOD Save her Heart.
If the environuts had their way, the human race would cease to exist.
So, why didn't Clintoon override the Senate and pass Kyoto? I mean, hell; it was life or death, right?
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. . . too much glue sniffing . . .
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Huge and ongoing heroin addiction. Didn't you know that?
"How he could possibly be elected to office, despite all his money and connections, is a mystery to me. He is an embarrassment to all."
He hasn't been elected to anything, and probably cannot be.
He was arrested for heroin use on an airplane.
Ummmm.....You do know how treaties get ratified, don't you?
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Ummmm.....You do know how treaties get ratified, don't you?
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Not sure. I thought the Pres could override a Senate vote. Was the 98-2 vote not binding to the actual treaty making?
Actually, you have it backwards. With normal legislation, Congress can override a presidential veto. The pres has no recourse if Congress votes something down.
With treaties, the president submits a treaty to the Senate, which then votes up or down on ratification. In the case of Kyoto, the Senate took a preemptive vote (actually, I think it was 95-0) saying in effect to Clinton, "Don't even bother submitting Kyoto to us."
In theory, lack of ratification by the Senate makes Kyoto a dead letter in the U.S. (some want us to pretend it's ratified anyway, but there's no legal obligation to do so).
>>I thought the Pres could override a Senate vote.<<
Kinda like a "reverse veto"!
Even better than Junk Science, now it's JUNKIE Science!
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