At least that’s what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says in this article at the Huffington Post (link provided only to prove he actually said something this stupid):
As Hurricane Katrina dismantles Mississippi?s Gulf Coast, it?s worth recalling the central role that Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour played in derailing the Kyoto Protocol and kiboshing President Bush?s iron-clad campaign promise to regulate CO2.
Now we are all learning what it?s like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence which Barbour and his cronies have encouraged. Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war in the Middle East and–now–Katrina is giving our nation a glimpse of the climate chaos we are bequeathing our children.
In 1998, Republican icon Pat Robertson warned that hurricanes were likely to hit communities that offended God. Perhaps it was Barbour?s memo that caused Katrina, at the last moment, to spare New Orleans and save its worst flailings for the Mississippi coast.
The insanity displayed in this article is so blatant that I’ve almost got to wonder if Kennedy wrote it after consuming one too many martini’s with his Uncle Teddy at the compound in Hyannisport. While people are dying and New Orleans is sinking, this man is trying to gain political points.
Despicable.
Check out this devastating rejoinder from James Glassman at Tech Central Station.
H/T: Citizen Journal
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