Atlanta Out Loud

I blame President Bush for a lot of our countries woes. But, I've been in a debate with some of my friends lately about the Bush policies effect on Global Warming and how that may have led to disasters such as the tsunami and Hurricane Katrina. I wasn't armed with the facts until my buddy Walter E. Williams helped me out.

Major categories 3, 4 and 5 hurricanes are relatively rare. If you check out the website of the National Hurricane Center, you'll find that the most active hurricane decade was 1941-50 -- recording 24 hurricanes, with 10 of them being giant category 3, 4 and 5 hurricanes. The peak for major hurricanes (categories 3, 4 5) came in the decades of the 1890s, 1930s and 1940s -- an average of nine per decade. Of the 92 giant hurricanes that have struck the U.S. mainland between 1851 and 2004, 61 of them occurred before 1950, long before global warming was an issue.

So, using the logic of the "Blame Bush for Katrina" crowd, the facts indicate that global warming is actually the fault of Franklin D. Roosevelt (a Democrat) and Harry S. Truman (a Democrat).

Those damn facts just get in the way.