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2005-08-30 Europe

US pollution partly to blame for Katrina: German minister

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Posted by Steve 2005-08-30 10:54|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Can we shoot him now for rudeness above and beyond any bounds of acceptable?

Posted by 3dc 2005-08-30 11:00|| 2005-08-30 11:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Ah, he's in good company in as much as every nutter haboring a little hatred and envy has a similar angle on what was simply a large hurricane that came too close to a city vunerable to such disasters. Think I'll give the embassy a ring to register my disgust.

Posted by MunkarKat 2005-08-30 11:10|| 2005-08-30 11:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Think of all the greenhouses gasses than can be saved by not buying German cars.

Posted by ed 2005-08-30 11:11|| 2005-08-30 11:11|| Front Page Top

#4 STFU, idiot. The amount of damage done by hurricanes is more related to the level of development of the coastal areas (more people and buildings, more death and destruction), than necessarily to the intensity or frequency of the storms.

Posted by Spot">Spot 2005-08-30 11:27|| 2005-08-30 11:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Trittin? He's only got one name? What's he like the Prince or friggin Madonna of environment ministers? And I'm sure he's driving to work in some solar powered tricycle, not some behemoth Mercedes limo, right?

Posted by tu3031 2005-08-30 11:39|| 2005-08-30 11:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Think I'll give the embassy a ring to register my disgust.

While you're at it, call up RFK, Jr. and give him a piece of your mind.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2005-08-30 11:55|| http://darkblogules.blogspot.com]">[http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2005-08-30 11:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Ron Reagan is repeating the same meme right now on MS-NBC TV - over and over.

Posted by 3dc 2005-08-30 12:09|| 2005-08-30 12:09|| Front Page Top

#8 Sure, Bobby. Call up Uncle Teddy and ask him what the holdup is on that windmill farm in Nantucket Sound. It's early so he may be relatively sober...

Posted by tu3031 2005-08-30 12:15|| 2005-08-30 12:15|| Front Page Top

#9 "A U.S. citizen causes about two and a half times as much greenhouse gas as the average European," said Trittin. Funny, this guy's a Green. I'm betting that the members of his party, with its high preponderance of vegetarians, put out more methane per capita than any other political organization.

Posted by imoyaro">imoyaro 2005-08-30 12:45|| 2005-08-30 12:45|| Front Page Top

#10 I thought the U.S is a carbon sink because of all the reforestation that's been going on for the last generation? Certainly the Northeastern States have not been so well forested since the Indians were running things. Germany, on the other hand... the Black Forest is infested with something that is seriously weakening the trees -- there are dead trees everywhere one looks. And our local American Women's Club took it upon themselves to plant trees over a capped off landfill in the area, a shocking idea to our German friends. Not to mention Mr. Wife the engineer did a back of the envelope calculation, and concluded that Germany's feel-good recycling efforts (returning empty glass bottles to the manufacturer, collecting plastics for storage in abandoned East German salt mines, undermining the French paper re-use industry) had a higher economic and environmental cost than no recycling at all.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-08-30 14:01|| 2005-08-30 14:01|| Front Page Top

#11 Trailing Wife, stop with the carbon sink stuff, that's exactly what Gore tried to put into Kyoto but was rebuffed. See the thing is if you count carbon sinks the US could qualify for Kyoto without crippling our economy and what fun would that be?

Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz 2005-08-30 14:34|| 2005-08-30 14:34|| Front Page Top

#12 TW, do you expect enviros to think in terms of real world consequences, rather than obligatory rituals? Gaia would never talk to them again!

Posted by gromgoru 2005-08-30 14:53|| 2005-08-30 14:53|| Front Page Top

#13 I read RFK's post on Arianna Huffnpuff's blog. He outright blames the Bush administration and Mississippi Governor Barbour for the hurricane. If only they had listened to him and signed the Kyoto accord everything would be OK. I was VERY surprised at the blasting he got from fellow Democrats in the comments section.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2005-08-30 16:33|| 2005-08-30 16:33|| Front Page Top

#14 Trittin (what kind of name is that, either be Tritium and boost nukes or be Tintin and have an unusual relationship with a small dog) - it is considered good manners to offer condolences when people have died in the midst of a disaster. At least have the decency to wait until the waters have subsided before making asshole comments.

Or I shall taunt you a second time - idiot.

Posted by Tony (UK) 2005-08-30 18:22|| 2005-08-30 18:22|| Front Page Top

#15 People like this can't be bothered with teh facts. The facts are "global warming" is a myth. There is no scientific basis for attributing the warming of the earth to human activity. Round them all up and put them in the same place and let them live in the utopia can't create.

Posted by Sock Puppet OÂ´ Doom 2005-08-30 18:34|| 2005-08-30 18:34|| Front Page Top

#16 Canadians are the world's biggest per capita consumers of energy by quite a long way.

Posted by phil_b 2005-08-30 18:41|| 2005-08-30 18:41|| Front Page Top

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