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I recently read an article (link no longer active) over at The Aviator Newspaper that really summed up the media coverage in this country on the global warming myth today.  It’s a chase to blame any type of weather event on global warming, regardless of whether or not it’s actually true.

I’ve said before on this blog that Hurricane Katrina was the poster child of the global warming movement in this country today.  Katrina, hardly the most powerful hurricane to strike the mainland U.S., was a category three storm when it pounded Louisiana in 2005.  Video of the destruction led the news for weeks, President Bush was all but blamed for the storm, and FEMA took the brunt of the criticism as supplies were late arriving at the scene.  The mainstream media focused on the strength of the storm and the awesome destruction left in its path.  Homes were left in ruin.  Boats floated down streets in New Orleans and some residents who didn’t heed warnings to evacuate died.  Hurricane Katrina was a direct result of our selfish attitude toward our planet.  Our globe had finally had enough.  Earth was angry and she was paying us back for all the damage we’d done to the atmosphere.  We drove too much.  We allowed industry to put too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.  And now we must suffer the consequences of her wrath.

Or so the media wanted us to believe.

Rarely did we hear about how New Orleans was below sea level.  Nor did we hear about the pumps that ran in the city all the time to keep the water out, with or without a hurricane.  The mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, did not receive, or accept any blame for the lack of evacuation efforts in his city.  School buses sat parked while the storm pounded the city.  New Orleans was a sitting duck.  It was the people and the culture that failed New Orleans, not Hurricane Katrina.  The Army Corps of Engineers had funding approved during the Clinton administration to look at new levee options around the city.  The former President then redirected the funds elsewhere.  There was a selfish attitude in New Orleans.  And it cost people their lives.  Hurricanes Hugo and Andrew hit the U.S. mainland with more punch.  Hurricane Floyd flooded much of eastern North Carolina.  But they weren’t blamed on global warming.  Not enough damage and blame for the Republicans in control of the federal government at the time, I suppose.

Today as disasters strike the globe, the mainstream media will be the first to pronounce them as results of global warming.  Earthquakes, floods, tornados, snowstorms, drought and any combination of them will be considered spawns of our self-interests placed above the interests of the globe.  They’ll pull some stuffy scientist from a well-funded liberal university in front of cameras, label him an “expert” on climate change, and provide him a ready-made script on how the most recent disaster is a result of man-made greenhouse gas.  But just remember this:  there are usually storms that have been more powerful in the past.  There have been earthquakes more devastating in the past.  There have been more extreme blizzards, floods and tornados in the past.  The media won’t do the research for you, but it’s there.  Think for yourself before believing that the latest natural disaster is because you drive a car.  It’s not the global warming myth; it’s media sensationalism run amok.  And it’s teaching a whole new generation of people that we as humans come second to the planet and we will be the cause of our own destruction sometime in the future.  And the tipping point, the media will claim, is not that far from reality.

Don’t believe me?  Try Newsweek claim: “Global Warming Is a Cause of This Year’s Extreme Weather” and Newsweek Blames Midwest Floods on Global Warming.  And that’s just from yesterday.