Tweeters are calling Hurricane Sandy Mother Nature’s revenge: Because so few prominent politicians have even mentioned climate change this election season, they say, she has cooked up a reminder.
Climate change is probably part of Sandy’s story, scientists and environmentalists say, but there are also short-term weather forces conspiring to create the sprawling, powerful storm. The interwoven ways climate and weather operate make it difficult to say any one storm is attributable to climate change — or that it is not.
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How come the "Global Warming" proponents aren't mentioning about the daily bombings going on in Syria, other Middle East countries, and elsewhere? THAT's where the majority of Global Warming is occurring. And perhaps, that's why most countries decline to address the "Global Warming/Climate Change issue.
Acccording to a chart published by the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change in 2006, the Earth was warmer than now for a period of 300 years during medieval times. In 1215, the growing season in England was three weeks longer than today. At the same time, on southern and southwestern Greenland, crops were grown in sufficient quanltity to support a population of about 2000. Greenland was called "green" because that's what it was !
Global warming and cooling are natural phenomena that have always been part of Earth's history. There have been at least four major cycles in the past 150,000 years.
In order to win public support (including government grants), as Jonathan Schell wrote in "Our Fragile Earth", scientists "have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements, and make little mention of the doubts we may have."
After he wrote a paper about the discrepanies in climate models, Dr. Reginald Newell of MIT once said, "I was warned that my funding would probably be cut. In fact, it has been cut."
It's unfortunate, but not surprising, when Ms. Daley and her grandstanding allies, use the Hurricane Sandy debacle to promote Eliazbeth Warren's candidacy.
too bad the data is so suspect
Speaking of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the GLobe is well aware that that the IPCC was exposed by the leaked e-mails at the University opf east Anglia in the UK. Globe says "So few prominent politicians have mentioned Climate change this election season". Perhaps that's because the leaked e-mails show that the IPCC's findings are FAKED data and a HOAX. --Liberal media like the Globe keep trying to bring up "Global Warming" as an excuse for more government regulation, more taxpayer handouts to Green Energy companies, more Carbon Taxes, and more govt. handouts to academic researchers. These are all JOB-KILLING initiatives, which the Globe is in favor of.