Comments Angel has made

  • Where to pump the polluted water?

    It's an emegency, they are going to talk about safety measures and pollution control, then they are going to pump the filthy polluted water into the Mississippi and let it flow right into the Gulf.  You may mark my words on that. American believes the Mississippi is the nation's biggest sewage plant. On How are journalists covering climate change in Katrina's wake? posted 4 years, 2 months ago 10 Responses

  • wise to link Katrina and climate change?

    I understand the possiblity of a lull in storms for a few years and the possible impact on getting the population to recognize that climate change is on us and is going to be difficult, but my sense that Katrina and climate change are linked is a gut and intuitive sense, not a deliberative or strategic tactic.  

    I think that lots of us know in our gut that the weather is changing, but when it is discussed as global warming or ice sheets melting, it is shapeless and has little meaning to Americans.  When it is presented as Katrina, it looks pretty disturbing.  

    The bottom line for me is that the warm waters of the gulf coast (inside of Fl) have great potential to fuel storms that move into that area to blow up into Cat 5 Storms.  If that is true, and I think it is, as long as the waters are abnormally warm, the gulf coast has become a death zone.  Houston, Galveston, Corpus Christi, New Orleans cannot be made safe from Cat 5 storms.  

    To the extent that our petroleum industry is sited in this region, this death zone really affects us all.  I think we have hit the convergence of peak oil and climate change with Katrina.  

    I think we have to make the link to get the American people to wake up and demand a sensible energy policy.  A sensible energy policy for this country would be one that includes energy indepence and goes way beyond Kyoto in terms of greenhouse gas reduction.

    Katrina's real name is global warming or climate change.  The politics and possibility of a couple of years of mild storms (I don't think it is likely btw) don't change that. On How are journalists covering climate change in Katrina's wake? posted 4 years, 2 months ago 10 Responses

  • homeland security

    increased level of chatter about the united states' inability to protect itself from anything stronger than a thunderstorm have led the Homeland Security Department to issue a chartreuse alert.  Dubya reports it's hard work tracking the chatter and issuing the color alerts. They don't think there is more that can be done because you have to wake up every day with the government you've got, not the government you want.

    Oh, and Rumsfeld's hot air has been identified as a contributing factor to the gulf coast water temperature.  On BusinessWeek on Katrina posted 4 years, 3 months ago 3 Responses

  • Shameful and lazy

    reporting that no scientist will say climate change and Katrina are related when the one reporter cites the MIT study.  

    Another reporter says no, it's not tied to global warming, it's just that the gulf waters were warmer than usual.  

    Duh. Could that be connected to climate change?

    The entrenched interests will continue to have these shills fronting for them, but if you live in Florida or the Gulf Coast, it's becoming harder and harder to deny that climate change is a problem. On How are journalists covering climate change in Katrina's wake? posted 4 years, 3 months ago 10 Responses