Current Topic Thursday: Make Way for Superstorm Sandy!

"From the climate hawk’s perspective, there is an intense, crazy-making urgency involved in all this. A humanitarian tragedy is heading our way and we are neither preparing for it nor working to reduce its severity. A catastrophe is unfolding, right in front of us, in slow motion. Somehow — no one knows how, but somehow — the American public must be made to appreciate that urgency and demand action. It is rare that an opportunity to highlight the climate crisis emerges out of the daily news scrum. When such an opportunity does emerge, climate hawks view it as a moral and political imperative to make the most of it."

That quote is taken from the article, Hawks vs. scolds: How 'reverse tribalism' affects climate communication. With the big Superstorm Sandy that just hit the East Coast of the United States I knew there would be articles like the above popping up.

Was the storm influenced by climate change or not?

Obviously there is some influence, the climate is different so our storms and weather are different, but to how high of a different degree?

This article puts an interesting approach on that very question, the climate hawks vs scolders vs people who agree one way or another, but don't want labels.

Give the article a read and let me know what you think!