Hunker down for Hurricane Sandy and contemplate climate change - Bob Keeler

[Everything was pretty great until that witch moved in down the road!] The kind of storm that used to roll around every hundred years or so will now be arriving much more frequently.

Capitol Confidential » LaVenia: Hurricane Sandy shows need for carbon tax

Green Party Senate hopeful Peter LaVenia used the arrival of Hurricane Sandy to push a carbon tax.

“Hurricane Sandy, the ‘freak’ October hurricane, is a product of rapid and continuing climate change,” LaVenia, a college lecturer, said. He did not have details about the carbon tax, just that it was time to “stop fooling around with cap and trade schemes and address the costs of things.”

Hurricane Sandy blows away election ephemera, leaving stark choice | Ana Marie Cox | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Though Sandy may finally bring a discussion about the environment to the forefront of politicians' minds, one of humanity's only creations that's almost impervious to the kind of force battering the US east coast is denial...Our part in global warming is more like that of someone dropping a lit cigarette in the forest, rather than someone starting a fire for heat.

Nobel Prize non-winner Michael Mann suing Mark Steyn - YouTube

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Climate warming deniers have well-oiled propaganda machines at their disposal, David Suzuki warns