Oh You've GOT To Be Kidding Me!

If I hadn't read it myself I wouldn't have thought someone could be so stupid. Robert Kennedy Jr., nephew of Senator Ted Kennedy and President John Kennedy, blames Hurricane Katrina on Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, the former Republican National Committee Chairman and advisor to President Bush, for not following the Kyoto Treaty on greenhouse gases.

How about the concept that a natural disaster is no place for politics? Just food for thought.

Okay, the world's climate has been changing for the past 10,000 years. No one disputes that. We have Ice Ages, we have warmer periods as well. That climates run in a cyclical pattern over time has been proven as a fact for years. Back in the 1970s (for those in my audience that weren't even alive then) we worried about Global Freezing. Many magazines such as Time and Newsweek had articles describing the potential for another ice age and wondering if humanity's actions had something to do with it. 20 years later in the 1990s we have people worried about global warming and wondering if humanity's actions had something to do with it. You have thousands of scientists on both sides of the argument saying yes or no as the answer to whether or not humanity's actions affect the Earth's temperature. I think the most accurate answer is: No theory has captured the majority of scientists yet. Since they, you know ... the scientific experts, study this I care more about their opinions than your's, mine, or Robert F. Kennedy's.

Since I love facts so much I guess we have this one to contend with: Mr. Kennedy shame on you for trying to score politcal points on the misery of a million displaced people with who knows how many deaths.

But hey, partisan politics and personal bitterness have to come first sometimes.