Climate hoax promoter Michael Mann on Sandy: "This may be that sort of Cuyahoga River moment for climate change"

Sandy a galvanizing moment for climate change? - latimes.com

"This may be that sort of Cuyahoga River moment for climate change," said Michael Mann, a leading climate scientist and Penn State University professor. "It has galvanized attention to this issue and the role that climate change may be playing with regard to the intensification of extreme weather."
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TV footage of floodwaters swallowing the entrances to New York's subway system is bound to leave an impression in the national consciousness, said Cara Horowitz, executive director of UCLA's Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment. "I think you can't overstate the value of those images constantly barraging the American public."

Science policy analyst and University of Colorado professor Roger Pielke Jr. disagrees. "I'm pretty sure by Tuesday, Mayor Bloomberg and Sandy will probably be a back-page story," said Pielke, author of "The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming."

"The disaster du jour" doesn't spark the kind of sustained political support necessary to foster action on climate change, he said. "Disasters are quite normal in general. To try and make the case to people that we have an unusual or large number is kind of a hard case to make."

He added that his research has concluded there is no evidence that human-caused climate change has increased the toll of recent disasters when adjusted for rises in population and the nation's gross domestic product.

Flashback: Climate Change Poll Finds Most Americans Unwilling To Pay Higher Energy Costs

WASHINGTON -- Only one in five Americans would be willing to pay significantly more for gas or electricity, even if they were assured that it meant solving the climate change crisis, according to a HuffPost/YouGov poll conducted this week.
...The HuffPost/YouGov poll was conducted online Oct. 29-30 [the day that Sandy hit the East Coast, plus the day after] among 1,000 U.S. adults and has a margin of error of five percentage points.