Climate Change, Katrina and National Security

On Monday, August 29, 2005, the Hurricane Katrina swept the South American coast of the Gulf of Mexico at a speed of 250 kilometers per hour, causing thousands of deaths and enormous financial losses in three states of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi. Although Katrina was a natural disaster, it was nevertheless man-made, caused by abnormal actions of human beings on natural environments and the increasing use of greenhouse gases in industrialized countries, especially in the United States. In the following, it can be stated that one of the political consequences of Katrina's occurrence has been to disturb security and public order during the occurrence of this incident.