The Spinning Storm Of Global Warming Activists

Click on the title for the complete Op-Ed piece from the usually left-leaning USA Today.

Hurricanes feed off of warm water. So the one-two punch to the Gulf Coast from Katrina and Rita has naturally led many people to wonder: Is global warming to blame for back-to-back major hurricanes slamming into the United States?

Well, the Europeans think so. Read on:

European officials and some environmentalists have been quick to assert a connection. After Katrina, Germany's environmental minister, Jurgen Trittin, called America "climate-polluter headquarters." As Rita bore down on the Texas coast, British scientist John Lawton cited it as evidence that the United States' policies on curbing pollution were responsible.

When you consider that Europe has a large percentage of socialists that have themselves convinced that any adverse natural disaster is a direct result of global warming, it comes as no surprise that they would be leading the charge, with these false claims. The whole idea of global warming was dreamed up by communists, to suppress the growth of capitalist countries where industry was more productive and more efficient, than in the former Soviet Union. They felt threatened by free market nations, because they knew they could not directly compete with them.

But to find the answer to the initial question, let's read on:

Not so fast. The science backing a link between global warming and devastating storms is preliminary, skimpy and contradicted by many hurricane experts. Even the researchers who suggest there may be a link caution against leaping to conclusions without lots more study.

But that won't be enough to convince many on the fence with this issue, much less the environazis. Here are some interesting points the writer uses to support his/her claim:

• Science doesn't support a link between global warming and recent hurricane activity, notes Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center. Katrina and Rita are part of a natural cycle. The increase in number and intensity of storms since 1995 is hardly unprecedented, says William Gray, a leading hurricane expert based at Colorado State University. He points out that two major hurricanes hit the Gulf Coast only six weeks apart in 1915, mimicking the doubly whammy of Katrina and Rita.

Don't tell that to a global warming activist, they are usually the ones that actively support the academic elitists that are constantly seeking to revise history, to support their leftist views (most of which came from the Soviet Union, as well).

• If global warming were to blame for recent storms, there should have been more typhoons in the Pacific and Indian oceans since 1995, Gray says. Instead, there has been a slight decrease — at the same time China and India have increased their industrial output and emissions of greenhouse gases.

Touche. I wonder how the left will spin this one.

• The impact of hurricanes might seem more severe because of the intensity of news coverage and because more people are living in hurricane alley. That means more property damage and more loss of life.

Another direct hit. Not only does this particular point make sense on the basis of its merits alone, the MSM has made it a practice to blow everything out of proportion, when it suits them and their agenda. Equally disturbing is the fact that they also minimize or ignore altogether other things that disprove, their left leaning views.

I usually am quite critical of the editorial staff of the USA Today. But in this instance, I commend them.