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?
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Joe Romm can quantify it. He claimed the 100 year storm is now the 10 year storm. No calculations or references, but I’m sure he can defend that number……..
Pat Bagley, cartoonist for the Salt Lake Tribune, seems sure the storm was caused by GW and that such is the scientific consensus:
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion/55178437-82/bagley-cartoon-facebook-lake.html.csp
How can he be wrong? –AGF
Kristoff has an NYT editorial where he highlights Sandy as our wake-up call. His article flip-flops between declaring Sandy a product of global warming, and saying Sandy was not caused by global warming, but that Sandy does serve to illustrate what global warming will bring in the future.
He notes a couple details that contributed to the ‘perfect-storm’ conditions, and acknowledges that there have been storms of similar magnitude across history, yet then proceeds on to attribute this storm to neither established range of normal variability, or to a unique blend of circumstances ot create the perfect-storm situation, but to global warming.
A classic disorganized mix of it-is-here-now and it-is-sure-to-be-here-in-the-future. Might. Could. Maybe.
Messy thinking.
There are great comments. There are also comments from plenty of ppl who mix up here/now with future apocalypse.
NYT cut off comments at a paltry 156. Why? Probably because people are exposing the global-warming witch-hunt doomsday cult fear-mongering for what it is.
I would urge ppl to comment, but the NYT seems to have had their fill of decent, thoughtful comments.
There is a clear link between those that say yes and those that say no. The link is the ones that say yes don’t have a clue about weather or/and are activists, so not surprising their knowledge of weather history and mechanisms/physics are seriously lacking generally (odd exception).
Serious questions to any saying yes, what is the difference between a hurricane that is influenced by AGW to one that is not? How can AGW create a hurricane that would otherwise by a bit of cloud with little rainfall? The reason being created from nothing seems to be the awful uneducated assumption.
There are many reason we brought about reasoning to Sandy, we bring up the issue of global warming, politics, and other more. All these things happening in all the countries in the world is just giving us a message!!! We contribute to Global Warming, politics got nothing to do with Sandy but the Bible already says that during this last days things will happen to show that the time is near and we need to repent. Geography expert bring up ideas summing up all recent activities but no one got the answer.
all we gotta do is be prepared cause this is not the end its just the begining of every happening that will happen in this world.
Thank you for being scientific and not political. My question is when all the scientists on tv are actually politicians, what will happen to science? But I guess the military industrial complex will keep records. Maybe it’s not “global warming” whatever the heck that made up term is.. Maybe it’s the intentional and elaborate daily spraying of billions of tons of chemicals by drones and western militaries and NATO into our skies? They turn our blue skies in to white/grey polarized reflector and make the sun blaze half the sky, instead of where just the quarter-sized sun is shining. Or they spray different formulations of chemicals that form “clouds” from the dirty chem trails. They are already using HAARP to alter the atmosphere and electrifying the atmosphere to intensify smaller storms. “What in the World are they Spraying” a documentary on youtube.
Global warming is the best thing since sliced bread ! It started in the 1840’s before anyone used oil,gas or much coal. But it is not influenced by man when the main influence is solar, and the greatest greehouse effects come from water vapour, not co2. In fact we a coming up out of a temperature low into the normal range again after about 300 years in a cool region. Get your fact straight from the “Global Warming Petition Project ” found on the web and written by real scientists not one who wish to rule by force!
One thing IS clear, though. Everyone is now aware that climate change is real, and the debate is almost over now, whether or not they believe northeastercaine Sandy was caused by global warming, which it was not.
Anthony Watts,
What’s wrong with Dr. Michio Kaku’s geography?
When is the national weather service going to own up to the massive failure of not calling sandy a hurricane north of NC – VA border? A failure that gave millions a false sense of security. Instead they referred to it as a “post tropical cyclone” which no one on the east coast has ever heard of and sounds like a very weakened storm.
Bunch of putzes.
I’m still holding out for whale farts, have you ever seen the size of those things??