SocraticGadfly: American “Climate loonies” need to wise up

September 23, 2005

American “Climate loonies” need to wise up

That’s the message from Sir John Lawton, chairman of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution in Britain.
“The increased intensity of these kinds of extreme storms (like hurricanes Katrina and Rita) is very likely to be due to global warming,” Lawton told the newspaper in an interview.
“If this makes the climate loonies in the States realize we’ve got a problem, some good will come out of a truly awful situation,” Lawton said.

Maybe, just maybe, hitting some of Bush’s Houston oil buddies, Rita will force more of them to be more vocal in their concerns about global warming.

Most the principals of Big Oil already give at least lip service to the issue; ExxonMobil is the only holdout, but what would you expect?

Now, if there were really a God and justice, Rita would wipe out anything Halliburton-related in Houston.

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