You Gotta Love the British... Eloquent as Always

and... Fair & Balanced to boot.

3 Quotes from...

"After the Katrina tragedy, the looters come with their lies and half-truths"
--by Gerard Baker

"...And then came the predictable exploitation of the tragedy for political purposes, the dishonest advancing of an ideological agenda. This represents a sort of intellectual looting, in which the perpetrators help themselves selectively to convenient facts for their own delectation, sidestepping the dead and dispossessed before making off with their meretricious spoils."

"There's no evidence, in fact, of any increase in either the frequency or the intensity of hurricanes since Man has been polluting the atmosphere... "There have been no published studies that argue for attributing an observed increase in hurricane intensity or frequency to global warming,..." "

"Romantics like to think of nature as indiscriminate in its fury. Rising water pays no deference to wealth, makes no concessions to poverty; mansions and hovels both crumple before hurricane-force winds."

If you want specifics as to just who Mr. Baker feels the "looters" are, check out the full article at timesonline.co.uk

Personal Note: I remember I laughed when I first heard that Ashley Brand-- our erstwhile weather-girl --didn't believe in global warming. It seemed to me, then, all too real. Now, however, I find myself agreeing with her. I've had to time to learn a few things since then.