Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Top 10 Damaging Hurricanes Within 50 Miles of Sandy's Landfall

Large, damaging storms are not unprecedented in the second half of October, with Storm 11 (1944, ~$54 billion), Wilma (2005, $26 billion) and Hazel (1954, $24 billion).

The Science Behind Hurricane Sandy: Climate Change or Freak Storm? | StateImpact Texas

Climate change, Mann says, boils down to taking bad weather, and then increasing the odds.  [Why don't Michael and the warmists ever show us hard data demonstrating that a 59 degree F. world has less bad weather than a 60 F. world or a 58 F. world?]

Tamminen: Leaders Must 'Wake Up' About Climate Change - CNBC

if our leaders and the public don’t soon “wake the [blank] up,” Mother Nature will be sending us a bill that we are ill-equipped to pay.

Common Sense Kiss of Death for Climate Change Lawsuits? | The Energy Collective

The trial bar is left gasping for air, but the marketplace is spared from endless litigation over climate change. The principal legal theory behind climate change litigation and the endless quest for monetary damages has been debunked by the most arguably liberal Appellate Court in the land and worse, the Kivalina decision appears to further strengthen the preemption defense for defendants in all environmental common law actions, under both federal and state law. This is a victory for common sense worth savoring.

Who Owns the World? Noam Chomsky on U.S.-Fueled Dangers, From Climate Change to Nuclear Weapons

The differences are basically about how enthusiastically the lemmings should march towards the cliff.

snopes.com: White Wilderness Lemmings Suicide