Climate Scientist Predicted Sandy Months Ago ~ Superstorm Sandy And Climate Change Go Hand-In-Hand ~

[Turborama]

"Global Warming" gives too much wiggle room to denialists.

"Climate Change", though, is now pretty much irrefutable.

WASHINGTON -- Climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer stood along the Hudson River and watched his research come to life as Hurricane Sandy blew through New York.

Just eight months earlier, the Princeton University professor reported that what used to be once-in-a-century devastating floods in New York City would soon happen every three to 20 years. He blamed global warming for pushing up sea levels and changing hurricane patterns.

New York "is now highly vulnerable to extreme hurricane-surge flooding," he wrote.

For more than a dozen years, Oppenheimer and other climate scientists have been warning about the risk for big storms and serious flooding in New York. A 2000 federal report about global warming's effect on the United States warned specifically of that possibility.

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[ananda]

1. Not shocked and not surprised.

Human-caused warming and climate change are well upon us.

[SubgeniusHasSlack]

2. Obivously,

but the reality deniers continue their blather as they sink into the tar pits of irrelevance.

[flamingdem]

3. Every three years? We just had Irene in 2011 so

count on it being every three years, not every 20

[1StrongBlackMan]

4. I was listening to FEMA Director Fugate this morning and ...

He said something really, really smart ... He said that the process of clean-up and restoration must include measures to access and mitigate against FUTURE events.

What a concept!

[Turborama]

5. Michael Moore on CNN just now: "This storm shut put an end to climate debate"

Arguing with Morgan and CNN's weather man about it now.

[Uncle Joe]

6. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Turborama.

[tishaLA]

7. I was astonished listening to NPR today

they had a scientist on who insisted that climate change had nothing to do with Sandy. And nobody to provide the other side. It was absolutely confounding: yes, I understand, one storm isn't "proof" of anything, in the same way that a cold spell doesn't disprove climate change. But to shut the door on climate change as a contributing factor, as this guy did, was astonishing to me.