Hurricane Sandy, AKA the Frankenstorm and Climate Change: Is There A Connection?

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Hurricane Sandy, AKA the Frankenstorm and Climate Change: Is There A Connection?

Bill McKibben on Why ‘Frankenstorm’ Is Just Right for Hurricane Sandy Bill McKibben writes in the Daily Beast that the ocean temperatures are certainly different, (as Mat noted here ) You can’t, as the climate-change deniers love to say, blame any particular hurricane on global warming. They’re born, as they always have been, when a tropical wave launches off the African coast and heads out into the open ocean. But when that ocean is hot—and at the moment sea surface temperatures off the Northeast are five degrees higher than normal—a storm like Sandy can lurch north longer and stronger, drawing huge quantities of moisture into its clouds, and then dumping them ashore. He concludes: Our relationship to the world around us is shifting as fast as that world is shifting. “Frankenstorm” is the right name for Sandy, and indeed for many other storms and droughts and heat waves n...

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