Right now Hurricane Ivan is pounding Mobile, Alabama, but it looks like New Orleans will be spared its doomsday scenario. Still, this violent storm will likely reshape the geography of the Gulf Coast.
Related note: last week British PM Tony Blair, riffing off the flurry of Atlantic hurricanes, tried to express deep thoughts about global warming. Very sensible Brit journalist Melanie Phillips has fisked his statement thoroughly. Her introductory comment sums it all up:
Tony Blair's speech on global warming was simply nonsense on stilts from start to finish.
Her conclusion:
Global warming is an enormous scam, the greatest scentific scandal of the latter part of the 20th century. Like many who may themselves even boast a string of letters after their name, the Prime Minister has made a complete ass of himself, as history will eventually record.
Read the whole thing to see what's between the bookends, and learn.
Posted by Alan at September 16, 2004 12:55 AM