Unnatural History By Patrick J. Michaels

Hurricane Katrina -- a very big storm by any measure -- has now been called the "largest ecological disaster in U.S. history," according to the Christian Science Monitor, because it "killed or damaged about 320 million trees." Moreover, Katrina was a double ecological whammy, as the downed trees will eventually rot or burn, releasing another increment (probably too small to detect) of dreaded carbon dioxide, the main global warming gas. The Monitor's report was based upon an analysis of satellite imagery conducted by scientists at the University of New Hampshire.

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