Did Climate Change Supersize Hurricane Sandy? | Mother Jones

So is global warming involved in making storms bigger, overall? According to MIT hurricane expert Kerry Emanuel, it might be—but probably only a little. "For ordinary hurricanes, we actually expect a little increase in the size, based upon recent work we've done," Emanuel explains. "Not spectacular, but a little increase in size."

5. Hybrid storms and climate change: Sandy, continues Emanuel, is a "hybrid storm"—in other words, it has characteristics of tropical cyclones (hurricanes) that get their energy from the warm ocean surface, but also of winter cyclones that get their energy from temperature contrasts in the atmosphere. Such hybrids do occur around the world with some regularity, but how is global warming changing them? That's less clear, Emanuel remarks. Unlike for hurricanes, "nobody has bothered to compile a comprehensive climatology of hybrid storms," he says. "So there's nowhere to go to see the characteristics of these storms changing."

Yes, Hurricane Sandy is a good reason to worry about climate change

[Warmist Brad Plumer in the Washington Post] Humans, of course, aren’t responsible for the tides. But we are warming the planet right now and melting the polar ice caps

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NPR ON HURRICANE SANDY: Has Climate Change Created A Monster?

If NPR really believes that, it’s up to them to set an example for the rest of America by voluntarily shutting down their stations and Websites, in order to help save Gaia. Or as the Professor likes to say, I’ll believe there’s a crisis, when the people who tell me it’s a crisis start to act like it’s a crisis themselves.

Abnormally Heavy Snowfall Catches Muscovites Unprepared

“Inhabitants of Moscow were surprised by unexpected and abnormally heavy snowfall, which is rare for October,” says reader Argiris Diamantis.