Are 'Frankenstorms' like Sandy the new norm, thanks to climate change?

International Business Times: "It's a matter of probabilities," says Jeff Masters, a meteorologist at Weather Underground. "When you add more heat energy to the ocean, you have more energy available to power strong storms. We've now made it possible to have something we've never seen before." The bottom line: a warmer climate means that bigger and later hurricanes like Sandy are more and more likely. "We do know that if you heat up the oceans, you tend to increase the length of hurricane season and have storms earlier and...

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