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Ärende: The Econuts! 
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The Ec(h)onuts are wrong!

Econuts are wrong to blame Hurricane Kartina on Bush or Global Warming.

By now you've probably heard about the lunatic comments of Robert E.
Kennedy Jr, Felten, Sanders and Vlist.  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) organsized 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 for 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 Econut 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)


Roy

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