A Climate Scientist Explains How Global Warming Makes Hurricane Sandy Nastier

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A Climate Scientist Explains How Global Warming Makes Hurricane Sandy Nastier

NASA Earth Observatory /Public Domain Hurricane Sandy is out in full force; I'm currently waiting for the slow-moving frankenstorm to bear down on me as I tap this out (good thing there plenty of memes to keep me distracted). As is to be expected, there's been some good discussion about how much of the storm is attributable to climate change—Lloyd collected some of the best pieces exploring that link yesterday. And I've argued that humans have built a veritable frankenstorm factory by spewing CO2 into the atmosphere; now we have to figure out how to live in it. But I thought I'd add some commentary from the horse's mouth; that is, some discussion of the climate-hurricane link directly from a climate scientist. Today, Slate published a Climate Desk interview with Dr. Kevin Trenberth , one of the nation's most esteemed climatologists, and he here's how he explained the impac...

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