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Hurricane Sandy: Is Climate Change to Blame? (with images, tweets) · insidecl... - 0 views

  • Hurricane Sandy: Is Climate Change to Blame?Some of the nation's most outspoken scientists on human-caused climate change were active on twitter explaining how global warming influenced hurricane Sandy. Well-known skeptics were tweeting as well, some denying the hurricane-climate link.
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Impact of Hurricane Sandy on Election Is Uncertain - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Imagine that 15 million people are essentially off-limits to pollsters because of the hurricane, because they are without power, displaced from their homes or otherwise are well-adjusted human beings who are more interested in looking after their families than in answering a political survey. The Northeast is Democratic leaning, of course: imagine that these voters would prefer Barack Obama to Mitt Romney by a net of 20 percentage points, on average.Fifteen million Americans represent about one-twentieth of the American population. If one-twentieth of Americans, who are 20 points Democratic-leaning, are unable to reply to surveys, Mr. Obama’s standing in the polls would be negatively impacted by a net of one percentage point as a result.
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Bill McKibben on Hurricane Sandy and Climate Change: "If There Was Ever a Wake-up Call,... - 0 views

  • Bill McKibben on Hurricane Sandy and Climate Change: "If There Was Ever a Wake-up Call, This Is It"
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Climate change: Doha conference next week is last chance for action | Avaaz - 0 views

  • Climate change Crunch time for the climate by Avaaz Team - posted 25 November 2012 12:18 Tweet Youth speaks to power about the climate crisis (Liam Moriarty) You didn't have to go far to find extreme weather this year. North America experienced both brutal drought and a record-setting storm. Extreme weather in Africa, southeast Asia and Europe also caused widespread damage and cost many lives. In fact, as New York state governor Andrew Cuomo noted, extreme weather seems to be the "new normal".With delegates from around the world converging on Doha, Qatar, this week for the 18th UN conference on climate change (COP18), the need for real progress on global warming has never been more urgent. And while there are many obstacles to progress on this crucial problem, there are hopeful signs as well.
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Effects of climate change increase risk of storms' impacts - Metro - The Boston Globe - 0 views

  • For example, rising sea levels in the Northeast, which are increasing three to four times faster than global rates, according to federal statistics, will bring more flooding and damaging storm surges that ride atop high seas. Warmer air can hold more water vapor, meaning storms could drop more precipitation. New England has seen more erratic precipitation in recent years with extreme rain and snowfall events increasing by 85 percent since 1948, according to a climate report issued last week by US Representative Ed Markey, called “The New New England.”
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