This article made my day. Maybe Katrina will have shown Bush that the economic impact of loosing entire cities to global climate change events is probably alot worse than ratifying Kyoto.

As the US grapples to contain the devastation wreaked by Katrina, Germany’s Environment Minister, Jürgen Trittin is experiencing a storm of outrage following his suggestion that the US brought the catastrophe on itself.

In an opinion piece in Germany’s Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper, the environment minister was quick to point the finger of blame, openly chastising Washington for its refusal to sign the long-debated Kyoto treaty designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

“The American president has closed his eyes to the economic and human damage that natural catastrophes such as Katrina — in other words, disasters caused by a lack of climate protection measures — can visit on his country,” Trittin wrote.

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1699073,00.html