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Is Climate Change Turning New York Into a Hurricane Hotspot?
Posted by Slate: Will Oremus on October 30th, 2012
Slate: New York isn't known for its hurricanes. At least, it never has been before. But after Irene in 2011 and Sandy in 2012, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he joked to President Obama that "we have a 100-year flood every two years now.' Is it possible that climate change has somehow turned the Big Apple--and the northeast in general--into a hurricane hotspot?
Possible, perhaps. But the atmospheric scientists I've talked to say it would be misguided to conclude based on those two storms that the northeast...
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Posted by Slate: Will Oremus on July 12th, 2012
Slate: Rupert Murdoch made waves on Twitter yesterday by dunking his toe into the climate change debate:
Climate change very slow but real. So far all cures worse than disease. Shale gas huge breakthrough for US. Half carbon of coal and oil.
David Roberts of Grist was incredulous: "Solar panels are worse than drought or rising sea levels?'
Of course not. The problem is that we aren't building enough of them to significantly slow climate change. And we may not anytime soon, thanks in part to that...