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August 31, 2005
German Minister Blames Bush for Katrina
Posted by Dave Blount at August 31, 2005 1:11 PM
It's one thing for kooky leftist bloggers to blame Bush for the weather, but aren't government ministers supposed to act like grownups? Apparently not in some administrations. Here's what Germany's Environmental Minister Jürgen Trittin has to say on the subject of Bush's complicity with Katrina, via Davids Medienkritik:
By neglecting environmental protection, America's president shuts his eyes to the economic and human damage that natural catastrophes like Katrina inflict on his country and the world's economy. ... When reason finally pays a visit to climate-polluter headquarters, the international community has to be prepared to hand America a worked out proposal for the future of international climate protection. The German Government stands ready.
So thoughtful of the German Government, which has managed to cripple Germany's once mighty economy with senseless regulations, to offer to do the same to ours. As Leigh points out at The House of Wheels, when it comes to blaming Bush, it's getting hard to distinguish between the leftists who mean it and the satirists who make fun of them.
In case anyone actually believes that Katrina was caused by global warming (whether global warming even exists and whether Bush has anything to do with it are separate issues), check out these graphs I lifted from EU Rota (the red line is the average number of hurricanes per decade):
