HuffPost: Global warming worsened Katrina, or something like that

The HuffPost's Jason Leopold offers "An Issue Just as Deadly as Terrorism", about Katrina and the Northeast blackout:

...For years, energy and environmental experts sounded early alarms about the potential for catastrophes like this unless federal lawmakers immediately took the necessary steps to upgrade the country's aging power grid to stave off widespread power failures.

Whoever Leopold is, he needs an editor to make it clear that the power grid didn't worsen Katrina.

And in the case of global warming, backed the Kyoto protocol, which aims to curb the air pollution blamed for severe climate changes that is no doubt the reason Katrina turned from a relatively small hurricane to a destructive monstrosity due to high sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the National Weather Service.

What's that? The NWS says global warming worsened Katrina!? No, wait, let's read that more closely. He's saying that that was caused because we didn't sign Kyoto! No, wait... Aw, don't bother. Just let the Arianna side of your brain take over and you'll understand.