[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Let's all sue the cavemen for causing the end of the last glacial period.

I rather prefer warmer weather.....especially when fuel costs are rising rapidly.

[DTogo]

And all the natural disasters that occurred under Bill Clinton were caused by...??

[OpusatFR]

Gee. This just makes me like the Europeans less and less.

Not that my regard could go any lower, but there is always room in the mud for them in New Orleans.

[vigilante2]

it's really my fault because I didn't vote for john kerry who could have stopped it all with his bare hands

[STFrancis]

Trittin is an idiot and there is a reason he won't be in power much longer.

[tumblindice]

"Shut that filthy pig-latin!"

Sniper Jackson to a captured German, digging furiously.

http://www.revisionisthistory.org/ryan.html

We'll get right on that hurricane thing.
Your Ami freunds.

[An.American.Expatriate]

Old news.

Every time anything weather related causes a catastophe anywhere, the German (and European) Press latches onto the Global Warming Theme and Bashes Bush with it. The recent flooding in Switzerland and Bavaria was also blamed on Global Warming - and of course, in the same breath, the fact the the Evil President Bush opposses Kyoto, blah blah blah.

Sadly, it seems that the weather gods are once again delivering an Election Campaign Theme to the SDP/Greens in Germany (as in 2002). The radical left just loves it when Schröder & Co. can blast the US / GWB.

[Unam Sanctam]

The frequency of natural catastrophes like Hurricane "Katrina" can only be explaned by man-made caused global warming, Tritten told the ZDF network.

Cite one shred of evidence...

[Dustbunny]

What a bunch of mental midgets the German's are.....

[traumer]

It didn't take long....

[Gritty]

There were hundreds of Spanish treasure ships full of gold from South America sunk during hurricanes back in the 1500s-1700s.

It's a good thing the Kyoto Treaty came along to stop this uncontrolled centuries-long global warming and save us from hurricanes!

[johnnyBbad]

I'm not sure what to make of this environMENTAL nonsence.

Do they really believe their own theories? Are they desperate and just trying to blame anything on their climate predictions? Are they doing it as a joke and will one day say "GOTCHA! Just kidding!"

I really don't know anymore...

[AntiFearmonger]

German Environment Minister's comment was unsubstantiated, baseless and a cheap political shot at the US. If it wasn't for the inherited (old) East Germany's high quota of CO2 for 1990, Germany would now be scrambling more for buying some poorer country's "emissions" in the name of power plant upgrading.

It is a pity that natural disasters are used as "political trump cards", not only by activists but also the statespersons. It must be the time for "Kyoto 2" - another numbers game.

Recommended reading: "State of Fear" by Michael Crichton, 2004.