I just posted a thread on the extended news sidebar about hurricanes in that Gulf area since the 1500's. The data was put together by the Air Force Weather Detachment at Eglin AFB.
The records get much better in the 1800's.
In short, there was an average of about 1 hurricane every other year.
The range though, went from a few hurricanes a year up to only one in about a 4-5 year stretch.
In short, there's nothing unusual about there being a hurricane in this region this year. Kyoto has nothing to do with it.
Article is here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473774/posts
His father's assassination, as tragic as it was, spared the left something even more painful: His father's defeat at the hands of Richard Nixon.
Wasn't it Pat Robertson that claimed a hurricane was turned in the Atlantic by prayer a few yrs. ago? Wasn't he scorned for the statement?
JFK jr. is in for it now. /sarc
If RFK Jr. is so concerned about environmental issues, then he should know about EROSION, and the fact that N.O. is built on a house of cards. They don't call it the Mississippi Delta for nothing! Poor emergency planning couldn't be the fault of Demo-stooges being in charge of the state, now could it?
You'd think the little jerk would have the class to keep his pie hole shut at least until the bodies had been buried...or even counted. RFK Jr's comments are worse than foolish, worse than merely factually unsound. They are insensitive, ill-timed and in bad taste.
This guy must have drank his braincells away early in life.
The Kennedy family is irrelevant. It's a myth.
RFK Jr. is such a maroon!
PFUI, pure flummery.
So how do they explain category 3-5 hurricanes that struck the US in the years before fossil fuel was in wide spread usage? Well if Bush and Barbour caused this, no problem they can just use their mojo to get the waters to recede.
"Who is this loon - the guy on the grassy knoll?"
He's the nut job who is leading the opposition against the construction of a wind farm off of Cape Cod because the windmills will disrupt the view from the energy sucking estate in Hyannis, also known as the "Kennedy Compound."
Ummm, Bush said he clearly OPPOSED Kyoto in debates against Gore. Besides, every computer model shows, Kyoto will have zero effect on global warming. What a friggin moron.
Just saw some weather person on the Weather Channel last night saying that MA is due for a massive storm. Wouldn't that just be too bad. This little privileged creep doesn't have the sense to keep his yap shut, does he.
To hell with RFK, Jr. To hell with all the idiot liberals who have such little brain matter as to even suggest that a human could have caused such a NATURAL disaster. TO HELL WITH THEM ALL!!!!!
Expect to hear this more and more as the days go on. The left wil use this as a spin to slam Bush.
Yes, I have really had it with this blame, blame, blame crowd.
Didn't Falwell or Robertson take a lot of flack from the media when one of them suggested that God had lifted His hand of protection over the nation on 9-11 because of its cultural degradation?
I wonder if the media will pounce on this radical nutcase for saying basically the same thing?
And yes, I mean that as a rhetorical question.