Getting absorbed into a discussion about the causes of the hurricanes -- something that can be neither proved nor disproved at this point -- is a distraction from the real justice issue at hand, which is that disasters like these are hardest on those who have the least to begin with. 

It's the inner-city poor in this country and those living on the margins in undeveloped nations like the Dominican Republic that are hit hardest and have the longest recovery when such events happen. It's not just poverty that is the issue, but the systems we all support (knowingly and unknowingly) that perpetuate poverty.

The coldest, hardest truth for Christians to own is that others pay a price for our comfort. Climate science may well prove to have a role in these disasters, but the science I'm most concerned about at the moment is the science of economics.