Two Views of a Superstorm in Climate Context

dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com 30 Oct '12, 8pm

Two Views of a Superstorm in Climate Context

Your response…follows the same line of thinking that I was addressing in my email to you. Yes, there has been more and less “storminess” in the past. Yes, we may even be in for a “natural” increase in storminess over the next several hundred years. But mentioning that in the context of Hurricane Sandy is an attempt (or at least has the effect) to minimize the concern about the documented changes to the climate we have already made and the predicted catastrophic consequences of staying on the fossil emissions path we are on. It is seeding doubt at a time when action is needed. We have increased CO2 levels in the atmosphere by about 40% in the last 100 years (mostly the last 50 years) on the way to doubling later this century. The Earth has warmed up about 0.8°C (1.4°F) already due to the extra greenhouse gases we put in the atmosphere and it would have warmed even more if w...

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@Nate_Springer » 02 Nov '12, 6pm
Amazing: the #climate debate shifts in a week. From "is it happening" to "is #Sandy related". [link] [link]
@climate_diplo » 01 Nov '12, 6pm
viewing the storm Sandy in a climate context: @revkin outlines an insightful discussion on his NY Times blog. [link]
@b0yle » 01 Nov '12, 6pm
RT @leHotz: As @deborahblum says, @cbrainard is pitch-perfect on #Sandy and climate change. [link] So is @Revkin. [link]
@leHotz » 01 Nov '12, 6pm
As @deborahblum says, @cbrainard is pitch-perfect on #Sandy and climate change. [link] So is @Revkin. [link]
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@2020Action » 31 Oct '12, 1pm
Scientist's talk about the impact of global warming on Hurricane Sandy: [link]
@DavidDHaynes » 31 Oct '12, 11am
A deeper dive (warning: dense science) on climate change risk for NYC [link]
@trengriffin » 31 Oct '12, 11am
@Andrew_Dad @NickHanauer No database of hybrid storms (see previous link). On huricanes: [link] and [link]
@WendyBredhold » 31 Oct '12, 5am
I find @revkin's approach so annoying. [link]
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@danmiller999 » 30 Oct '12, 10pm
Me vs. Andy #Revkin on #Superstorm #Sandy and #climate change: [link]
@andrew_zolli » 30 Oct '12, 10pm
On the internecine debate between #climate hawks & scolds, w @revkin + @drgrist: [link] and [link] #sandy
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@Revkin » 30 Oct '12, 8pm
@markfischetti PNAS paper on surge trends is getting heavy pushback from heavy hitters in climate/hurricane field. [link]
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Interesting discussion between @Revkin and climate activist Dan Miller on climate and hurricanes. [link]
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