Dunce in Chief in Denial Over Global Warming

Practically every scientist on the planet believes global warming is a man made phenomenon. Even the main stream media has bought into global warming; they don't even give a voice--in the name of balance--to the minority crackpots who deny it anymore.

So with global warming now universally recognised, it will come as no surprise that the Dunce in Chief has surpressed a report from NOAA. This report apparently concludes that hurricanes are becoming stronger due to rising sea surface temperatures. This makes sense since warm water is the engine of tropical storms; with global warming increasing sea surface temperatures, the effect is essentially to turbo charge the storms, turning disorganised category 1 storms like Katrina into category 5 monsters practically overnight.

It is clearly White House policy to continue to deny global warming, lest it impact their friends in the oil lobby, lest it require them to do something unpopular like raise fuel efficiency standards. The Dunce in Chief can't bring himself to ask for sacrifice from the American people; he can't deny them tax cuts to pay for his war, he can't ask for better fuel efficiency (though not sure what the sacrifice is here). Come to think of it, can he make a decision at all--"should I stop reading My Pet Goat?" Bush hides behind the fact that making these changes would hurt our economy. If we don't have a National Policy on global warming (like California has) the cost will be phenomenal. We know Katrina cost more than $2 billion. How much will the next big hurricane cost. How much have all the forest fires in the West cost, and the tornadoes in the mid West cost, and the flooding all over cost? All of these have risen in frequency and scope in recent years. If we don't act now, the economic cost will be phenomenal. Will it take a Katrina-like storm in Washington, DC or New York for our government to act?