Hurricane Sandy a boon to global warming speculation

While global warming hysteria in recent years largely fell off many Americans’ radar, Hurricane Sandy has brought back climate change speculation with a vengeance: This week has seen politicians, pundits and entertainers engaged in hypotheses about the role global warming played in producing the monster storm.
“Hurricane Sandy is a disturbing sign of things to come,” former Democratic vice president and global warming activist Al Gore explained in a Tuesday blog post. “We must heed this warning and act quickly to solve the climate crisis. Dirty energy makes dirty weather.”
Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo agreed with Gore, telling ABC News that he believes the former vice president’s prognosis — that Sandy was a symptom of climate change — to be “right.”

“I said kiddingly the other day, ‘We have a 100-year flood every two years now.’ These situations never happened or if they happened, they were never going to happen again. … I think at this point it’s undeniable that we have a higher frequency of these extreme weather situations, and we’re going to have to deal with it,” ABC News quoted the governor as saying.
MSNBC contributor Meghan McCain weighed in on Twitter, offering a question to her “fellow” Republicans.
“So are we still going to go with climate change not being real fellow republicans?” McCain tweeted.
MSNBC’s Chuck Todd also engaged in a bit of global warming speculation, in a clip highlighted by the conservative Weasel Zippers blog.
“Let’s not bury our heads in the sand when it comes to — something has changed in the Atlantic, the climate has changed. It’s called climate change, folks.” Todd said on his show, “The Daily Rundown.”

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