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N AT I O N A L R E V I E W/S E P T E M B E R 26, 2005 role that Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour played in derailing the Kyoto Protocol and kiboshing President Bush’s iron-clad campaign promise to regulate CO2.” Kennedy is concerned here about a memo that Barbour, as a lobbyist, wrote in 2001. It urged the administration to follow an anti-Kyoto course.

Later in his piece, Kennedy wrote, “Now we are all learning what it’s like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel depen- dence which Barbour and his cronies have encouraged. Our destructive addic- tion has given us a catastrophic war in the Middle East and—now—Katrina is giving our nation a glimpse of the climate chaos we are bequeathing our children.” The author concluded, “In 1998, Re- publican icon Pat Robertson warned that hurricanes were likely to hit communities that offended God. Perhaps it was Bar- bour’s memo that caused Katrina, at the last moment, to spare New Orleans and save its worst flailings for the Mississippi coast.”

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Jay Nordlinger was a senior editor of National Review and a book fellow at National Review Institute.

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N AT I O N A L R E V I E W/S E P T E M B E R 26, 2005 role that Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour played in derailing the Kyoto Protocol and kiboshing President Bush’s iron-clad campaign promise to regulate CO2.” Kennedy is concerned here about a memo that Barbour, as a lobbyist, wrote in 2001. It urged the administration to follow an anti-Kyoto course.

Later in his piece, Kennedy wrote, “Now we are all learning what it’s like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel depen- dence which Barbour and his cronies have encouraged. Our destructive addic- tion has given us a catastrophic war in the Middle East and—now—Katrina is giving our nation a glimpse of the climate chaos we are bequeathing our children.” The author concluded, “In 1998, Re- publican icon Pat Robertson warned that hurricanes were likely to hit communities that offended God. Perhaps it was Bar- bour’s memo that caused Katrina, at the last moment, to spare New Orleans and save its worst flailings for the Mississippi coast.”