Katrina Report Card

How have Congress and the U.S. Administration responded to the lessons of Katrina and addressed the causes of its tragic aftermath?

Two years after Hurricane Katrina, much has become clear. We know that the devastation in New Orleans and surrounding areas was less a natural than a man-made disaster. Katrina's surge into New Orleans was the direct result of poorly constructed levees, an ill-conceived navigation channel and the destruction of millions of acres of coastal wetlands. Furthermore, the storm's intensity itself was fueled by unusually warm waters in the tropical Atlantic due, in part, to global warming pollution.

From Katrina Report Card at nwf.org.