“I don’t want to sound overly critical, but it’s hard to imagine that (the damage caused by Katrina) could happen in a Western country,” said Ted Sluijter, spokesman for the park where the sea walls are exhibited. “It seemed like plans for protection and evacuation weren’t really in place, and once it happened, the coordination was on loose hinges.”
The sympathy was muted in some corners by a sense that the United States reaped what it sowed, since the country is seen as the main contributor to global warming.Joern Ehlers, a spokesman for World Wildlife Fund Germany, said global warming had increased the intensity of hurricanes.
“The Americans have a big impact on the greenhouse effect,” Ehlers said.
But Harlan L. Watson, the U.S. envoy for negotiations on climate change, dismissed talk of a link between global warming and the strength of storms.
“Our scientists are telling us right now that there’s not a linkage,” he said in Geneva. “I’ll rely on their information.”
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Thursday, September 01, 2005
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The Kyoto protocal was set up to look at how global warming could be stopped, that means to stop the world over heating, weather tempetures increasing. New Orleans has seen winds , flods and more rain than they would ever want so I'm sure they'd want some sunshine whether it impacts on the Kyoto Protocal or not.
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