It is telling that the first major call for regulation to address the rapidly escalating impacts of climate change is coming from the finance sector.

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There's no question that the warm waters of the Gulf provided the heat that turned Katrina into a major storm.

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Katrina began as a relatively small hurricane that glanced off south Florida, [but] it was supercharged with extraordinary intensity by the relatively blistering sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico.

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The hurricane that struck Louisiana yesterday was nicknamed Katrina by the National Weather Service. Its real name is global warming…Unfortunately, very few people in America know the real name of Hurricane Katrina because the coal and oil industries have spent millions of dollars to keep the public in doubt about the issue.

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The hurricane that struck Louisiana yesterday was nicknamed Katrina by the National Weather Service.

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The point of this campaign was not necessarily to persuade the public that global warming isn't happening. It was to persuade the public that there is this state of confusion.

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Nicknamed Katrina by the National Weather Service Katrina, [but] its real name was global warming.

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