Hurricane!

People are struggling to understand the incomprehensible aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Without doubting that God can sometimes use the fury of his creation to judge wicked persons, it is a precarious theology that sees the wrath of God in every major instance of the fury of nature, especially when we are talking about an indescrimant fury like hurricane Katrina. We might do better to blame ourselves for global warming, because it is human beings who have messed up the ozone, which in turn raises the temperature of the ocean, and melts the polar caps, and engenders many more hurricanes, even before hurricane season, in the Atlantic Ocean and elsewhere. It is humankind that has despoiled our environment, not God. And in any case, the Bible has something else to say about such things, whether we are talking about natural disasters, or the loss of life due to human accidents, or birth defects or human beings being malicious.

With respect to global warming, the argument is often made that the Kyoto agreement would have ruined the U.S. economy. If Hurricane Katrina is the result of global warming, Kyoto may have been cheap in comparison.