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...story on the possible link between global warming and violent hurricanes touched off a stormy debate among Time's readers. Some argued that rising temperatures are simply part of a natural cycle. But environmentalists think that Katrina and Rita have proved that skeptics...
...been hit on two fronts - devastating hurricanes and ballooning prices at the gas pump. What appears to be an incurable addiction to automobiles resulted in scenes of cars frozen in gridlock or moving in endless lines at a snail's pace, as residents of Houston fled Hurricane Rita. This could well be what regular rush-hour traffic will look like a decade from now as we continue to build more cars than mass-transit vehicles and more highways than mass-transit infrastructure. The Bush Administration seems to be in denial about global warming, as it persists in ignoring the Kyoto...
...Building homes in an area below sea level, on a floodplain, near an earthquake zone or in a mudslide area is stupid. Billions of taxpayer dollars should not be spent to rebuild New Orleans in its present location. Disasters like hurricanes Katrina and Rita will happen again and again! Jerry Mazenko Garden Grove, California...
George W. Bush's handlers left no photo op unexplored as they sought to convince us that the President was fully engaged in hurricane relief after Rita. That strategy only underscores that this President is clueless. Bush moved quickly when two things of great importance to him were threatened: the Texas oil infrastructure and his poll ratings...
...Miller believes that the fall has already begun. Even Hurricane Rita, which in late September threatened further devastation to American refineries, failed to drive oil prices close to the post-Katrina high of $70.85?a sign, in his view, that the upward momentum has run out of gas. Miller also points out that oil's rise has been driven by trend-following hedge funds and traders piling into whatever is hot. With the oil price slipping, "that speculative money flow will reverse," as they bet instead that it will keep dropping...