While rescue efforts in New Orleans are still ongoing, various liberals are starting to emerge with “gotcha!” observations on the source of the disaster — global warming, the U.S. backing out of the Kyoto treaty, and so on. Even if they had a point (instead of being dramatically wrong), they ought to have a better sense of decency in these things. Post mortems are usually conducted after the patient has died, and not to be done in the middle of ER attempts at saving the life.
The only thing that could make such apalling crudity worse would be to have the untimely observations be completely nuts. RFK, Jr. wrote that Mississippi governor Haley Barbour has been reaping the whirlwind because of his earlier role in arguing for President Bush’s energy policy over against environmental policy. It is hard to know what is worse — the manners or the science.