Monday, October 29, 2012

Sandy and the real climate change question

Salon: While Hurricane Sandy batters increasing stretches of the East Coast, she has also thrown up somewhat of a false dichotomy question - "climate change or freak storm?" Climate scientists remain split on the debate of whether extreme weather can indicate a shifting global climate, as Tom Chivers of UK newspaper the Telegraph noted, "The answer is no, or yes, or better yet 'you`re asking the wrong question`." Succinctly, Chivers explains why Hurricane Sandy can neither be used to prove nor disprove...

URL: http://www.salon.com/2012/10/29/sandy_and_the_real_climate_change_question/
Enclosure: http://media.salon.com/2012/10/superstorm-sandy.jpeg3-460x307.jpg

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