Global Warming and Hurricane Sandy

By Paul Yeager, author of Literally, the Best Language Book Ever and Weather Whys: Facts, Myths, and Oddities

I’m not a climate change denier. I’m certainly not a political conservative (far from it!), and I’m not associated with the energy industry in any way, two of the main categories of deniers.

I just wonder why Hurricane Sandy seems to be a “slam-dunk” (a Dubya reference!) as far as being proof that climate change is making individual storms stronger when the East Coast has been hit with many strong storms in the past.

For more, read what I wrote on the Huffington Post.

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