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jtotheizzoe:

Climate and energy journalist/guru Chris Mooney tackles the question at Mother Jones. Hurricane Sandy is a very interesting storm, with some features influenced by climate and some perhaps not. 

It brings home the point that this presidential campaign has been silent on the issue of climate, and it’s sad that it takes a storm for some people to speak up. As Chris writes:

In a campaign season that has studiously avoided the “C” word, Sandy reminds us that eventually, the weather always forces the issue.

Before you get into a climate change debate with your neighbor after the power goes out, read his summary first.

Here’s a recent thermal image from NASA’s Aqua satellite showing the “perfect storm” collision of warm ocean moisture with cold polar air, a reminder that warming oceans can only lead to more frequent collisions of this kind in the future.

jtotheizzoe:

That’s the amount of climate change attributed specifically to man-made activities, according to a new study. More at Nature News.

wespeakfortheearth:

Imagine what it will be like when much of the South is like this most of the time (other than the occasional record-smashing deluge) — and temperatures are some 9°F to 11°F warmer on average.  It will be the great repopulation of the North.

Hansen also has a new paper out on climate change in which he says:

It is time for all of us to get Tea-Party-angry about what our political system has become and about the intergenerational injustice being perpetrated on young people.

And if you think the South looks bad, check out the future drought maps of Europe…

returntothestars:

James Taylor of Forbes magazine, the same James Taylor and Forbes magazine who attempted to debunk global warming using a paper published by a creationist and ExxonMobil associate, is at it again.

This time, Taylor has dug up a 2007 debate, at the end of which, 46% of the non-climate-scientist-audience was persuaded that climate change was “not a crises.” That’s up from 30% before the debate. Taylor finds this persasuive enough to declare victory for the climate science denialists.

Yeah, that’s nice. Meanwhile, 97% of climate scientists agree that anthropogenic climate change is real.

What an interesting but expected duo; Creationism and climate change denialists.

“Now, we don’t know who will win next year’s presidential election. But the odds are that one of these years the world’s greatest nation will find itself ruled by a party that is aggressively anti-science, indeed anti-knowledge. And, in a time of severe challenges — environmental, economic, and more — that’s a terrifying prospect.”