New Orleans crisis gives Bush climate warning - FOE

Monday 05 September 2005

The devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina on America’s Gulf Coast and the city of New Orleans offer further evidence to President Bush on the urgency of climate change action, green group Friends of the Earth has claimed.

While FoE has acknowledged that there is no evidence at this stage that Katrina was sparked by human induced global warming, the group highlights that the hugely destructive aftermath is consistent with forecasts generated by climate change models, that suggest such storms will become more commonplace as temperature rise.

"In the face of mounting evidence of rapid climate change President Bush has downplayed the scale of the problem and refused to take action to tackle it,” said FoE’s Tony Juniper.

“His Administration has worked tirelessly to derail international agreement on climate change and sought to put narrow US economic interests above global climatic stability. In the aftermath of this storm even he must wonder if he has made the correct choice".

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