Roger Pielke, Jr. is one of the most prominent and moderate voices in the world of science and policy-making today, and a man determined to keep politics out of climatology. But when it comes to Katrina, he is profoundly unhappy with the Bush administration:
The Bush Administration’s complete lack of preparedness for responding to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans is one of the most significant intelligence failures in history, ranking right up there with Pearl Harbor and 9/11.
Read the whole editorial, on his popular and worthy site Prometheus.