Ohh Nooo!!!
Red Panda's immigration status is somewhat uncertain, so he doesn't want to say this was exactly a "lie." Nor that the remark reveals Mr. Bush, for the umpteenth time, as "dumber than dirt." So let's just comment: "Close, but no stogie."
The fact is, absolutely no one anticipated this tragedy, except of course the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the Mayor of New Orleans, and many, many, many, climate scientists, but who listens to what they say? They believe in that "global warming" stuff. 'Nuff said.
But more shocking than the warnings from all those usual suspects is that fact that even Mr. Bill, the animated clay figurine from Saturday Night Live, is smarter than Mr. Bush, the animatronic president-simulacrum.
In a disturbingly prescient ad that CNN aired on May 27, 2004, Mr. Bill shows he has a much better understanding of New Orleans' levee system than Mr. Bush. Then he is eaten by an alligator. Oh nooo!!!
— Red Panda, Picayune Pundit, Light Reading
Chris Landsea was the scientist on the IPCC in charge of hurricane studies. He resigned when the chair of the IPCC made scientifically unsupportable statements that linked the inensfication of hurricanes to global warming. Landsea has jsut published a paper in Science which shows that any measured increase in hurricane intensity for the last 30 years is due to an error in which the data was analyzed. Many storms whcih had been categororised as less powerful were in reality category 4 and 5 storms. Thre has been no increase
As Landsea previous position with the IPCC would indicate, he accepts the global warming hypothesis. However it would seem that his acceptance of this hypothesis is conditional on sound scientific evidence and not religious faith.
Do you believe in global warming?