I Saw This Coming

It didn’t take long for the global warming crowd to jump on the Hurricane Katrina band wagon:

First the deafening roar of Katrina bearing down at 145 miles per hour on the gulf coast of the United States. Now the eerie silence, as victims wash ashore and out to sea. And in the aftermath, it seems that all of official Washington is holding its breath, less the dirty little secret gets out: that Katrina is the entropy bill for increasing CO2 emissions and global warming.

I figured people would use this tragedy to blame President Bush for global warming, but I just didn’t think it would happen this fast. You would think they would at least wait until all the dead has been recovered before the blame game would start being played.

The arguement for global warming causing the hurricane rings hollow to me. There have always been powerful hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico. You can look throughout recorded history and see that it is not uncommon for cities to be leveled by hurricanes in the gulf. Galveston, Texas got leveled twice. New Orleans has just been lucky over the years and has now been hit by a powerful hurricane. Their luck ran out.

Something else that bothers me, is that if this hurricane hit Mexico and killed a bunch of people there, nobody would care. When hurricane Mitch hit Central America killing thousands no one brought up global warming then. Now that Americans have been killed the global warming people are jumping all over it because they see this as an opportunity to push their agenda. Studying global warming is an industry and by sparking people’s fears by exploiting this hurricane the global warming crowd keeps themselves in business and secure funding.

I’m all for cutting back on fossil fuels and using alternative energy but it is not because of global warming. We need to cut back on oil for our own national security. Our addiction to oil, funds to many corrupt regimes that finance international terrorists. By decreasing our dependence on oil we not only help the environment but we also take money out of the hands of terrorists. If countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran have less money to prop up their economies they will have no choice but to liberalize their economies to continue economic growth. That would mean a more open society and less funding for terrorists.

It makes more sense to persuade people to use less oil by using the national security issue. Americans at heart are patriots and are likely to begin to use less oil if leadership from the top down pushes it, instead of proclaiming the sky is falling all the time. I’ve heard the sky is falling one to many times now, and I have quit listening.