Frankenstorm 2012: Is it Related to Climate Change? Will It Ruin Halloween? Will It Kill Us All? Team TreeHugger...

Frankenstorm 2012: Is it Related to Climate Change? Will It Ruin Halloween? Will It Kill Us All? Team TreeHugger Investigates

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Frankenstorm 2012: Is it Related to Climate Change? Will It Ruin Halloween? Will It Kill Us All? Team TreeHugger...

My favorite analogy for explaining the connection has to do with baseball and steroid use. From Scientist, Dr. Gerald Meehl: Think of it like this Dr. Meehl said: "Barry Bonds had a certain average level of home run production in his baseball career before he started allegedly taking steroids. Once he started taking performance enhancers, his home run production increased, and he set the single season record for home runs in 2001. Now he holds the all-time record for the most home runs. If we watched Bonds hit any one of these home runs, would we be able to say that it was directly caused by his steroid use? “No, that’s impossible. But the odds of him hitting one are much higher; his base state has changed.” So cimate change has caused a similar shift of the odds in the atmosphere that will cause more extreme events to occur than if no such alteration existed. But all of t...

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