US News and World Report is running a poll on whether or not Hurricane Sandy was caused by global warming. Here is the poll results currently:
Since it is open to everyone, no matter what side of this opinion you come down on, see their web site to add your vote if you wish.
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2012/10/30/was-hurricane-sandy-caused-by-global-warming
UPDATE: From reader input it seems this poll is apparently of even poorer quality than one would expect, and allows multiple voting. NO to vote stuffing. Be honest, 1 vote per person please…though, they may allow you to think it was counted. Sigh, what a poor design for a national magazine. In any event none of that vote stuffing please. OTOH this lack of basic input control negates any value the poll may have. – Anthony
NRO has a similar poll
http://www.nationalreview.com/
“Is Sandy a product of global warming?”
currently Yes 4%, No 96%
WUWT should have it’s own (better) poll. To make it more useful, it should have more questions:
Is the weather getting worse over the years, in your own experience?
Is there GW? Is there AGW? Is CO2 the sole cause? Is GW bad? Do you believe in CAGW?
Do you believe that current social/economic/geopolitical issues or future climate issues are more important to deal with at this time?
Have climatic scientists changed your respect for science and all scientists for better or worse?
Where do you get your information about GW?
The design of this poll may be a model for how the November 6 election will be conducted.
If Al Franken can steal an election by “finding” votes, then I am voting five times.
Up to No=64%+
US News et al is doomed to follow Newsweek into the pits of oblivion soon.
That’s science. Now we will have a poll to decide whether the Big Bang theory is correct.
Forget about emeprical evidence. Just get the votes.
“this lack of basic input control negates any value the poll may have”
It didn’t have any value anyway – it’s an internet poll.
Hurricane Sandy is a product of complex Paleo-Socio Feed-backs, Back-Scratch, and Batch-cracked Plot Stacks.
The evildense is incontra-convertable, also known as a Noriega-Curve or a Castro- 1955-Dodge-Sine.
Millions of minutes ago, super-dupa large critters called Bombastasaurs roamed the Artic tundra, when it was warm and swampy.
When they expired, around 10:00am last tuesday (times a zillion years: +/- 5 Tuesdays) they left enormous piles of mouldering carcasses, which eventually became frozen Bombastigas, as the climate got cooler.
Sometime in 1998, the Bombastigas started to leeched into Meteor-oligarchy departments, who took one whiff and announced the end was clearly nigh. Oopsa- Daisy-like.
This contributed to the Urban Budget Excess effect, caused by various University Deans and CEO’s of NGO’s rubbing their thighs in rapid expectation of soon acquiring a Goobermint funded brand new Lexus, twenty-something trophy wife and Knob-All peice prize.
This rapid increase in fermentating Bombastigas grew into sullen clouds of self-righteous dig-in-the-nation, in turn creating huge Udulatus Asperatus, Academia Asperationus, and Methodologus Assasinationus storms.
These increased in ferocity, frequency, scale and disney-esque Panavision hand tinted true-to-life-colour as the years rolled by.
Thanks to scientific breakthroughs in Tweeting and retweeting, the Bombastigas was amplified by Man-Made-Right-Click & Like tripple-stars-Double-Plus-happy-Face effects. Leading to runaway Anthropogenic Global Fooling.
Hurricane Sandy was therefore Man-made, but due to E.U rules, we have to say it was Person-Made.
The coincidence of the landfall and high tide clearly is a result of too much CO2.
It is a complicated relationship, but I have a model for the calculations. Trust me.
Keep it up guys, we may be able to reach the mystical “97% of … agree that …” before they shut it down.
I assume it isn’t matter of global warming but how the North Atlantic accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) is dissipated during the hurricane season. Current total ACE number is 121 (just above normal) of which Sandy 12.5 (Nadine =25), from which one could conclude that global warming may not be the main contributing factor.
Was Hurricane Sandy Caused by Global Warming?
63 % say yes.
I say global warming is caused by polls.
Was Hurricane Sandy Caused by Global Warming?
35.35% Yes
64.65% No
Annie, I just saw the 44 inane comments at the bottom of the article. All politics and all but a very lonely few highly credulous of the CAGW meme.
People really need to look at the storms in history. There were some truly awful weather events in the past made more awful by the inability to warn and prepare. Hurricanes, Typhoons and Tropical Cyclones have been devastating large areas for ever. This one is nothing new.
I’m not voting. Voting can help you decide who should be the President of The United States, but has nothing at all to do with answering scientific questions.
Just as those believing in global warming are citing this as ‘proof’ of their belief, I am sure there are those on the other side of the world who will cite this random natural disaster as an act of God in punishment for national blasphemy. I believe the evidence shows that this and worse has happened before and will happen again.
They were always going to make mileage on this.
Oh, this is funny. Talking of linking Sandy to AGW, I left a link over at Phil Plait’s bad astronomy pseudoscience article:
A wind is rising
Linking to Dr Pielke Jr’s article on embellishment of science, which seemed quite appropriate. Links posted over there usually end up in the moderation queue, so that didn’t surprise me, but they usually go from moderated to visible; mine went from moderated to “gone”. Now it could be a glitch in the blog software; or it could be that he is deleting links to sound science that explain why he is so wrong…
There is a scientific miracle underway in North Carolina with not near enough publicity in the healthcare community. It was reported that 2,660 voters aged 110 years or more voted in the 2010 election for the Democrat candidates. Another report finds some 583 North Carolina voters 112 years old or oler are registered to vote as Democrats. The world’s oldest living man in Japan is reported to be only 114 years old. Many people are asking what is this Fountain of Youth in North Carolina which selects so many Democrats for such remarkable longevity in their lives?
Governor Cuomo (of New York) needs to be made aware of this fact; he made a statement to the effect that these ‘weather events’ are getting “more extreme” .. this was on NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw -er- I mean Brian Williams.
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On the contrary, voting has everything to do “with answering scientific questions,” because some of the politicians obstruct employment of the scientific method and publication of peer reviewed research papers used to answer those scientific questions.
From: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20121030/DA284GAG3.html
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Klaus Jacob, an environmental disaster expert at Columbia University [says:]… “In the tunnels under the East River, all the signal-and-control systems are underwater. And it is salt water,” he said. “It’s not just that it doesn’t work right now. It all has to be cleaned, dried, reassembled and tested. And we are not sure what the long-term corrosion effect might be.”
At the time of the study, he said, the MTA also had only a fraction of the large pumps it would need to get major floodwaters out of train and vehicle tunnels quickly.
The study looked at the kind of flood that the Federal Emergency Management Agency estimates would only strike the city every 100 years.
This week’s storm, he said, illustrates the pressing need for better defenses against the higher water levels that will come with a warmer planet.
“I think we have come to the end of studies. What we need now is action,” he said.
Some authorities [like the quote from Andrew Cuomo below indicates] were contemplating the same ideas.
“We have to start thinking about how we redesign the system so this doesn’t happen again,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. “I don’t think anyone can sit back anymore and say, ‘I’m shocked at this weather pattern.’ There is no weather pattern that can shock me anymore.”
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The CAGW meme causing extreme weather events like Sandy is well-sown into the mind of New York State Governor Cuomo ..
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This is just stupid. What does “caused” mean? US News & World Report is obviously a rag.
Owen in GA @ur momisugly 3:48 pm:
Just tried again; no comments, no poll!
58% No – 42% Yes.
Suggests the WUWT post has had an effect, but there has been a reaction.
Obviously the poll is rubbish, but it would be interesting to see mapping of responses by IP address and time-zone. Not that anything like that can be expected.
Don’t know if anyone’s still reading comments since this thread is so long. I’ll throw in my 2 cents worth anyway. I am a Florida native. I’ve been through decades of hurricanes. The worst season for me was 2004. We had four Category 4 storms hit in one season. Luckily they dissipated relatively quickly. The worst I’ve seen was Andrew in ’92. It was smallish but it tore Miami a new one. The worst (according to historians) was on Labor Day in 1935. The storm surge was supposedly 20 ft. and it killed hundreds especially in the Keys. My question: If climate change creates hurricanes shouldn’t they be getting stronger? I was in Daytona Beach when Sandy was off the coast. For us, it was no big deal. Lots of wind and rain, some minor flooding and power outages. From looking at the news media about Sandy making landfall in NJ/NY I’d have thought they would have wiped every building off the map and laid waste to the land. God bless the people who lost their lives or their possessions but believe me when I say the storm was not as bad as the others I have mentioned.