Re: predictions: I said the other day that I feared claims from the environmental left that Hurricane Katrina was caused by global warming. I was right, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. gets the prize for being the first to politicize a natural disaster. What's more, he manages to blame Mississippi governor Haley Barbour for stopping passage of the Kyoto protocol, thereby failing to prevent the global warming that caused Katrina. So I guess Mississipi got what it deserved.