Shortly after making landfall in late August of 2005 – and causing massive destruction and death along the Gulf Coast of the United States – several prominent scientists and a host of climate alarmists began claiming that hurricane Katrina was a product of CO2-induced global warming. In fact, some of them went so far as to suggest that the monstrous storm was moral payment for the sins of a carbon-polluting country hell-bent on maintaining its high per capita CO2 emissions via their unrepentant burning of fossil fuels. Is there any scientific truth to this claim?
