Two Views of a Superstorm in Climate [Scam] Context - NYTimes.com

The exchange is worth posting here now (Miller gave permission), to give you a sense of how intelligent people with related, if not identical, goals can interpret a large body of science very differently

Climatesense-norpag: Hurricane Sandy-Extreme Events and Global Cooling

It is now clear that anthropogenic CO2 can play only a minor role in climate change and policies to control CO2 emissions are completely irrelevant or indeed counterproductive. Hurricane Sandy does however show what may be in store and that we should consider carefully what steps need to be taken to adapt our infrastructure to more frequent extreme events and world food production to the likelihood of more general cold and drought with intermittent floods and shorter growing seasons with unseasonable frosts.

Editorial: Sandy vs. climate change politics

This much seems beyond dispute: Because of man-made warming or natural cycles, or both, the U.S. is in an era of extreme-weather events. A report this month by Munich Re, the world's largest reinsurance firm, confirmed what has been widely suspected. The number of weather-related catastrophes has been rising dramatically since 1980 on all continents