Shocking (Not): Time Connects Hurricane, Global Warming

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By Tim Graham (Bio | Archive)
August 30, 2005 - 06:58 ET

Within a day of Katrina whipping the Gulf coast, Time.com leads with "Is Global Warming Fueling Katrina?" Jeffrey Kluger notes that "to hear a lot of people tell it, we have only ourselves—and our global-warming ways—to blame." His idea of sounding moderate is to allow generously that hurricanes did occur before the arrival of Rapacious Capitalist Humanity: "One thing’s for sure: hurricanes were around a long, long time before human beings began chopping down rainforests and fouling the atmosphere."