This list of who’s who is instructive to review. It says a lot about credibility of the “Sandy was caused by global warming” argument being pushed by activists and media.
Compare who’s pushing the agenda versus who isn’t buying into the hype. See below.
Links to their statements are designated with an asterisk * – click on the * to see the story
| Says Global Warming IS the cause of Hurricane Sandy | Says Global Warming IS NOT the cause of Hurricane Sandy | ||
| Name | affiliation/link | Name | affiliation/link |
| Al Gore | activist Climate Reality Project * | Dr. Martin Hoerling | NOAA * |
| Joe Romm | activist CAP * | Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. | UC * |
| Bill McKibben | activist 350.org * | Dr. Karsten Brandt | donnerwetter * |
| Chris Mooney | activist and blogger, Grist * | Dr. Chris Landsea | NOAA NHC * |
| Roseann Barr | actress/singer Pres.candidate * | Dr. Ryan Maue | Weatherbell * |
| Meghain McCain | no known credentials * | Dr. Patrick Michaels | VA state climo/ Cato * |
| Dr.Katharine Hayhoe | Texas Tech * | Dr. Judith Curry | Georgia Tech * |
| Dr. Michael Oppenheimer | activist EDF * | Dr.Norman Page | PhD – Geology * |
| Jennifer Granholm | TV host/fmr governor * | Dr.Gerald North | Texas A&M * |
| Dr. George Lackoff | Berkeley * | Eric Berger | Houston Chronicle SciGuy * |
| Dr. James Hansen | activist, NASA GISS * | Tom Chivers | UK Telegraph * |
| Van Jones | apologist and activist * | Andrew Revkin | New York Times * |
| Chris Matthews | Hardball * Deniers are pigs. | Dr. Roy Spencer | UAH * |
| Bill Clinton | #42 * | Joe Bastardi | WeatherBELL* |
| Dr. Stephan Lewandowsky | Pollster * | ||
| Michael Moore | Sicko (on CNN) | ||
| UNSURE/ASK ANOTHER/ DIFFERENT QUESTION: | COMPLETELY OFF TARGET POOR GEOGRAPHY | ||
| Dr. Randall Dole (NOAA):Dr. Peter Stott of the UK Met OfficeDr. Kevin Trenberth (NCAR) | * | Dr. Michio Kaku * | |
| Dr. Kerry Emanuel (MIT) | * | ||
From this comparison it seems clear that activists are pushing the idea that Hurricane Sandy is cased by AGW/Global Warming.But what about the hundreds of other storms?
Readers are invited to submit other entries in comments.
Add to Global Warming IS the cause of Hurricane Sandy column Cara Santa Maria – Huffington Post. senior science correspondent Cenk Uygur – TV host Daniel Kessler – activist 350.org
Hurricane activity has been trending downward:
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/ACE.jpg
RE: wayne Job says:
October 31, 2012 at 2:48 am
Be scared, be very scared. Indeed the energy loss to space in this event was tragic. It’s gone forever. In spurts, the current and temporary faux “melt age” will reveal its true persona, the cold, ice covered 4/5ths death.
If one hurricane was caused by AGW then all hurricanes must be caused by AGW???
http://www.nyc.gov/html/oem/html/hazards/storms_hurricanehistory.shtml
mwhite says:
October 31, 2012 at 11:26 am
Yeah, sure! That and you shouldn’t have made the gods angry!
I believe the hurricane itself is a standard tropical Atlantic cyclone. It seemed to follow a normal track until it encountered a high pressure zone west of Greenland which caused it to approach land in a perpendicular manner which is unique.
The storms direction, coupled with hitting during a full moon high tide, caused an incredibly large storm surge.
As for the damage, I haven’t seen it discussed yet, but I will certainly be looking for information on the impact of the land filling of Manhattan island which has significantly changed the nature of lower Manhattan over the last 150 years.
Zafar Bangash, director of the institute, said Tuesday he did not write the post, headlined: “Hurricane Sandy delivers slap on US face.”
Cam_S
That well known expert on climate science, Daryl Hannah, comments in the Guardian. She doesn’t mention Sandy directly but links to it from the word ‘superstorms’.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/31/battle-big-oil-rush-ruin-darylhannah
Global warming did not cause Sandy Christopher Monckton of Brenchley explains facts to ‘bed-wetters’
There was a study published in Nature (I know) in 2007 that studied hurricane activity in the Caribbean over the past 5000 years using sand sediment cores from a lagoon. You can read the full abstract here , but I thought this part was interesting:
[snip . . try and actually say something . . mod]
Hmmm … the ‘stupid’ would seem to track the promulgation or fan-out of TV, which bred it’s own form of ‘pop’ culture (I’m thinking of American Bandstand now) … as the Bell System matured and installed wideband (Television capable bandwidth; 4.5 MHz for a black and white NTSC signal in those days) transmission circuits between cities (including coaxial cable and the early TD-2 microwave network) telecasts from local television studios received a wider audience than was previously possible before the 1960’s …
We need to get Robin (of Invisible Serf’s Collar) on this … this would blend in well with her present study-subject.
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James Taylor: Leave It To The Global Warming Alarmists To “Make Fake Lemonade” Out Of Hurricane Sandy
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/E11.html
I don’t see a downward tend in ACE. Rather than trying to link GW with any particular storm, it seems to me that the total season’s energy drawn from the ocean would be the best possible connection point.
PBS attributing Sandy to climate change in News hour in the climate change series – Bloomberg and Cumo. Joe Romm, Center for American Progress vs Kenneth Green American Enterprises
Prior to extensive human fossil fuel usage, life expectancy was much shorter. Therefore I blame “Satan’s Rock” – not for the storm, but for the fact that I lived long enough to see it. Dratted fossil fuels!
I know what REALLY caused Sandy – the Occupy Wall Street movement. 😉
Global warming bah humbug! Al Gore go back to the rock you washed out from under, your an embarrassment to mankind!
Sure did… Made the dinosaurs go extinct too.!
Any educated person knows that no single weather event is caused by global,warmng. We were overdue for a storm like this even though it took an unprecedented track.
that’s a loaded question. there is no such thing as global warming.
This morning on the News it is being claimed that “Superstorm” Sandy has claimed 70 lives, and it is tragic and very upsetting to see the names and photos of people who have lost there lives and to learn the circumstances of their deaths. it is horrible. My heart goes out to those families.
I’d like to know and understand how the same TV station ignore and refused to report on major meteorological events that killed hundreds.
I will only mention one report. do your own investigation on this. “human cost” and people who have died are being unfairly represented.
February 11, 2012
Europe: Record snow and freezing have killed 600 people
http://www.examiner.com/article/europe-record-snow-and-freezing-have-killed-600-people
Hurricanes are cause by whale farts, but ALGORE probably contributes too!
Please add Tom Brokaw to the left side of the list.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/10/31/brokaw_on_sandy_obviously_we_do_have_climate_change.html
Thanks.