CO2 Now-A Dramatic Real Time Display
With Sandy winding down and heading for the great north, this is a reminder how we got to where we are. And why we must change our ways. Low carbon or carbon free energy sources are a must.
And a little article from weather.com
WASHINGTON — Climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer stood along the Hudson River and watched his research come to life as Hurricane Sandy blew through New York.
Just eight months earlier, the Princeton University professor reported that what used to be once-in-a-century devastating floods in New York City would soon happen every three to 20 years. He blamed global warming for pushing up sea levels and changing hurricane patterns.
New York “is now highly vulnerable to extreme hurricane-surge flooding,” he wrote.
For more than a dozen years, Oppenheimer and other climate scientists have been warning about the risk for big storms and serious flooding in New York. A 2000 federal report about global warming’s effect on the United States warned specifically of that possibility.
http://www.weather.com/news/weather-hurricanes/sandy-climate-change-debate-20121030