The Liberal accusations are just beginning, but this is a piece of
what RFK Jr. had to say about Global Warming causing the
Hurricane.
As Hurricane Katrina dismantles Mississippi?s Gulf Coast, it?s worth
recalling the central role that Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour
played in derailing the Kyoto Protocol and kiboshing President Bush?s
iron-clad campaign promise to regulate CO2.
In March of 2001, just two days after EPA Administrator Christie Todd
Whitman?s strong statement affirming Bush?s CO2 promise former RNC
Chief Barbour responded with an urgent memo to the White House.
Barbour,
who had served as RNC Chair and Bush campaign strategist, was
now representing the president?s major donors from the fossil fuel
industry who had enlisted him to map a Bush energy policy that would be
friendly to their interests. His credentials ensured the new
administration?s attention.
The document, titled ?Bush-Cheney Energy Policy & CO2,? was
addressed to Vice President Cheney, whose energy task force was then
gearing up, and to several high-ranking officials with strong
connections to energy and automotive concerns keenly interested in the
carbon dioxide issue, including Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham,
Interior Secretary Gale Norton, Commerce Secretary Don Evans, White
House chief of staff Andy Card and legislative liaison Nick Calio.
Barbour pointedly omitted the names of Whitman and Treasury Secretary
Paul O?Neill, both of whom were on record supporting CO2 caps.
Barbour?s memo chided these administration insiders for trying to
address global warming which Barbour dismissed as a radical fringe
issue.
