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The Frankenstorm and Climate Silence
Posted by Huffington Post: Rebecca Anderson on October 31st, 2012
Huffington Post: What is a Frankenstorm?
A monstrous concoction of part-hurricane, part-nor'easter currently slamming itself against the eastern seaboard to the detriment of 60 million people.
What is climate silence?
The lamentable fact that neither Obama nor Romney mentioned a single word about climate change during the presidential debates or during their campaigns.
What do they have in common?
At the moment, nothing. But just maybe, that might change over the next few days. Perhaps the evacuation...
Climate Change’s Role in the Flooding of the Mississippi –
Posted by Huffington Post: Rebecca Anderson on May 26th, 2011
Huffington Post: It seems like there's been a lot of crazy weather lately. Powerful tornadoes wreaking havoc across the Southeast, Texas in the worst drought in decades and now flooding along the Mississippi.
Global warming, right?
Um, actually, maybe so.
It's a standard first response whenever any climate scientist is asked if a particular weather event was caused by climate change: "You can't say any one storm happened because of climate change." And then they go on to talk about how climate change may...
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