What surprises me though is that the media has come quite close, but never touched on it. I hear everywhere that we've already had twice as many tropical depressions as last year at this point, and that the New Orlean's levies were built to withstand a one in 250 year storm. Maybe 250 years ago Katrina was a one in 250 year storm, but now we should, sadly, expect to see it commonplace, and I would not be surprised by the devastation along the gulf coast should another "Katrina" come along this season. In addition, I must ask why nobody has stopped to question why we've already had so many storms? Why hasn't anybody stopped to wonder why there are currently three storms ranked as tropical depression or tropical storm sitting out in the Atlantic? Why hasn't anybody stopped to wonder why a planet that has "recently" run on 11000, 22000, and 100000 year climate cycles has dramatically shifted in the last 10 years, let alone the last two years!? Why isn't anybody talking about this? I realize that right now, they're trying to save lives - but those of us who aren't intimately involved have a responsibility to try to do all we can to prevent this in the future - which includes discussing climate change's effects on severe weather. This is big, huge, and we can only expect to see more of it in the future, so we might as well start addressing it now.
Though it has been heavily talked about, I thought I should say a little bit about recent events. I'm sure I'm biased to think this way, but through every moment of this, I not only wonder why this wasn't prevented, but why nobody has said "meep" about Katrina's relation to climate change and global warming - at least nobody has written anything I've read, and I read a fair amount of sources. The media has avoided it, and the administration has, of course, avoided it as well.