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Nov. 1, 2012 10:19pm

With superstorm Hurricane Sandy devastating much of the East Coast — namely densely populated areas of New York and New Jersey — global warming has made its way back into the political forefront. Although it wasn’t much of a major issue during this 2012 Presidential Election, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg endorsed Democratic candidate Barack Obama Thursday, he said, because of climate change. GOP candidate Mitt Romney was heckled about climate change and its relationship to the storm. And Bloomberg’s Businessweek made a very loud statement about global warming and its connection to Hurricane Sandy on its cover.

Its Global Warming, Stupid: Bloomberg Businessweek Makes Strong Statement With Hurricane Sandy Cover

(Image: Bloomberg)

Assistant managing editor and writerΒ Paul Barrett leads the online edition of the article writing that heΒ recognizes “it’s unsophisticated to blame any given storm on climate change.” Making a distinction, Barrett calls up experts in the field saying that while the storm would happen regardless of climate change or not, they believe Sandy was made stronger because of global warming factors.

Barrett goes on to call up studies detailing financial implications of natural disasters and predicting their rise. Climate denialism, he says is “both shortsighted and dangerous,” and extreme storms like Sandy, the U.S. can’t afford. The solution: “To limit the costs of climate-related disasters, both politicians and the public need to accept how much they’re helping to cause them.” Barratt suggested carbon taxing as an idea that “must remain a part of the national debate” to help mitigate the effects of man-made global warming.

The fact still remains though that the science is still out when it comes to the relationship between climate change and its influence on hurricanes. Still,Β editor Josh TyrangielΒ tweeted about the cover:Β 

Its Global Warming, Stupid: Bloomberg Businessweek Makes Strong Statement With Hurricane Sandy Cover

The New York Times’ Justin Gillis wrote in an article about climate change and Sandy earlier this week that scientists “simply do not know for sure if the storm was caused or made worse by human-induced global warming.” Here are a couple quotes Gillis included about this uncertainty from scientists:

β€œMy profession hasn’t done its homework,” saidΒ Kerry A. Emanuel, a climate scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. β€œI think there’s going to be a ton of papers that come out of this, but it’s going to take a couple of years.”

[...]

β€œMy view is that a lot of this is chance,” [NOAA scientist Kevin Trenberth] said. β€œA hybrid storm is certainly one which is always in the cards, and it’s one we’ve always worried about.”

Naturally, the “stupid” — which are most likely those considered “climate deniers” — have a response. A well-known “climate denier” Anthony Watts posted on his blog Watt’s Up With That this response:

Its Global Warming, Stupid: Bloomberg Businessweek Makes Strong Statement With Hurricane Sandy Cover

Anthony Watts’ modification of the Bloomberg cover. (Image: Watts Up With That)

Although scientists would agree that warmer ocean temperatures could fuel more powerful hurricanes — some would say the ocean temperatures this year are warmer as a result of man-made climate change — Eric Berger, the science blogger for the Houston Chronicle, wrote in Sandy’s case that its strength may be related to other factors though (Editor’s note: emphasis added):

[...] the recent strengthening of Hurricane Sandy is attributable, in large measure, to baroclinic forcing. This is a technical term that represents the collision of very warm air (Sandy) with very cold air (a strong cold front moving southeast from Canada). The collision of these air masses is providing energy to Sandy.

In other words, cold air is in some sense allowing Sandy to strengthen.Β Cold air.

As for concerns for more frequent hurricanes, even the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency states in its global warming predictions that “thereΒ isΒ less confidenceΒ in projections of the frequency of hurricanes, but the global frequency of tropical hurricanes is likely to decrease or remain essentially unchanged.“

Berger, for example, supports the idea that the climate is warming and is in turn changing the weather, but still states “it is a big stretch to go from there to blaming Sandy on climate change. It’s a stretch that is just not supported by science at this time.”

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  • pwatkins
    Posted on November 2, 2012 at 12:45am

    We all know who is stupid….those like Mayor Bloomberg that endorses Obama. Those two nitwits that call themselves leaders are worrying about global warming while people are begging for help in NJ and NY. Wouldn’t surprise me if Christie jumps on the global warming train. They pull in the money from the global warming scare while people suffer and die because of mother nature. Now could this be manmade, well there are questions we have about that, not bc we are stupid, but know how to follow the money trail. I would believe chemtrails and HARRP before I fell for global warming/climate change. I will never forget an article msnbc and a few others had about Osama Bin Laden pushing global warming and telling us to listen to Obama.. I knew right then he and Obama had things in common. Obama can’t prove to us Bin Laden is dead much less global warming.

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    • Wool-Free Vision
      Posted on November 2, 2012 at 2:28am

      “Our cover story this week may generate controversy, but only among the stupid.”

      You’re right, Josh, since anyone who subscribes to, buys, or pays any attention to your pathetic rag must be truly stupid. That’s not to mention the shills who publish it.

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    • smallcraftadvisory
      Posted on November 2, 2012 at 5:35am

      Of course it was man-made global warming, when Obama loses the election next week, that will be because of man-made global waring as well. Read http://smallcraftadvisorychronicles.blogspot.com/ for fresh political commentary.

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    • G-WHIZ
      Posted on November 2, 2012 at 10:37am

      BBaaaaaaaaaaaaa…baaaaaa…baaaaa…zzzzzzzzzz…. .

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  • apojoe69
    Posted on November 2, 2012 at 12:18am

    I predict the global frequency of tropical hurricanes is likely to decrease, increase, or remain the same. Any money donated for the global warming cause will be distributed among countries of the world so they can buy themselves a nice yacht or house full of hookers. We really are stupid!

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  • RightChoice
    Posted on November 2, 2012 at 12:13am

    You Stupid. It is not global warming. Let’s make this very clear, according to Syria, the brilliant scientists from Iran made this superstorm to punish USA. So it is man-made storm. Nothing to do with climate change.

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  • apojoe69
    Posted on November 2, 2012 at 12:06am

    If you think this is global warming, your stupid!

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  • RaydocX
    Posted on November 1, 2012 at 11:55pm

    Bloomberg and gore and their supporters need to learn history and talk to weathermen and actuaries or statisticians…

    This was a ‘hundred year storm’. The last was more than 100 years ago.

    Oh, and the storm was magnified by interaction with COLD air.

    Idiots need to stop confidently spouting lies as if they have proof… They aren’t even using logic, if they ever were.

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  • QuincySmith
    Posted on November 1, 2012 at 11:41pm

    The cover generates NO controversy for me: One must be stupid to believe in ‘man-made’ global climate change.

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    • HKS
      Posted on November 1, 2012 at 11:50pm

      Guys like Bloomberg, Gore and the like have invested a lot of money in the businesses that are positioning to make a fortune on global warming if they can just get you idiots to buy into it. Their getting nervous as you can see.

      “Remember Benghazi”

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    • bonesiii
      Posted on November 2, 2012 at 12:13am

      Just what I was thinking. A lot of people have learned that these liberals, often by their own admission, don’t care about the truth, and people are starting to just ignore them and leave them behind with real science.

      Their response? Ad Hominem fallacy, the retreat of those who know they’re wrong and won’t admit it. Also often the sign of a coming fall… as in pride goes before.

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  • Diane TX
    Posted on November 1, 2012 at 11:33pm

    If the stimulus money had been used to upgrade the antiquated electrical grid in NYC and the Jersey Shore, instead of being wasted on worthless “green energy” projects, they would have electricity, gas and clean water.

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  • eegor
    Posted on November 1, 2012 at 11:29pm

    They made a mistake by putting a comma in the title. Without the comma, the title is entirely accurate.

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  • IndyGuy
    Posted on November 1, 2012 at 11:27pm

    Question …What’s Bloomberg’s cut from the Climate Exchange Fraud being perpetrated on the world??? Perhaps as much as Al Gore’s??? They should both be locked up for fraud…

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  • 4-The-Truth
    Posted on November 1, 2012 at 11:27pm

    I thought we only had global warming during the Bush administration. I just feel the chill of socialism creeping up on this country day by day.

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  • TSUNAMI_22
    Posted on November 1, 2012 at 11:24pm

    Hasn’t anyone noticed they [tree huggers] haven’t included the “man-made” part to their argument in a while?

    Of course global warming causes this, naturally…..it’s a by-product of that big ball of fire in the sky that causes it.

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  • dylan
    Posted on November 1, 2012 at 11:10pm

    We will leave you (and you know who you are) with your ignorance.

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  • Fatheroftwo
    Posted on November 1, 2012 at 11:02pm

    If Sandy was caused by Climate Change (Global Warming) then it would have been minimum Cat 3 not a T.S when it hit the coast!! The flooding was caused by geography and tides more than wind!

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  • AltaOil2
    Posted on November 1, 2012 at 10:59pm

    Global Warming = $$$$
    Like some of the photos I saw of New Yorkers plugging/charging phones
    off poles on sidewalks-withdrawlllllllllll
    and the best comment of the day,
    “All powered by coal”

    Really Bloomberg? I call that “Stuck on Stupid”
    Fools, I am soooo glad to be on the Right side of Life!

    Romney/Ryan
    Godspeed

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  • mbean
    Posted on November 1, 2012 at 10:56pm

    Surprised they did not blame Bush as well. Everything that has happened in the last four years was caused by him according to MSNBC.

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  • LIBERTARIAN T38
    Posted on November 1, 2012 at 10:56pm

    Bloomberg proves any idiot can get rich in America.

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  • I SPY
    Posted on November 1, 2012 at 10:53pm

    Global Warming Is A Scam, STOOPID! – Gloom!berg Dime Mag

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    I SPY  
  • grayling646
    Posted on November 1, 2012 at 10:41pm

    I post this story on every one of these dumbass global warming stories. This is the wording of the Petition Project (sponsored by OISM.org). There’s more info at the link provided.

    We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan in December, 1997, and any other similar proposals. The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind.
    There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.

    Over 31,000 American scientists have signed this petition.

    http://www.oism.org/pproject/

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    • chalkdust
      Posted on November 1, 2012 at 11:14pm

      It falls on deaf ears. Only the wonks like myself understand what your talking about. Those of us who are skeptics can usually explain why we don’t just fall in line like the fact that to this day, all the modeling done is solely based on anthropogenic forcing only. They don’t even model natural forcing and never have. Believers usually can quote Gore and tell you that a majority of scientists agree on man caused global warming. Even though, thanks to NASA, we now know we did in fact go through a warming trend for about 10 years that ended in the mid 90′s. We have been cooling for the last 10 years. The thesis is that green house gasses trap heat warming the planet causing all sorts of problems. But what has really happened is we have cooled and C02 has continued to rise.

      Man caused climate change is the worst combination of grant science and pseudo science.

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  • ognus
    Posted on November 1, 2012 at 10:40pm

    I believe New York is going to get hit worse because of this immediate sentiment.
    I believe Bloomberg, Gore and the like are stealing God’s voice.

    Sometimes storms are humbling reminders to a wayward populace. I can’t say anyone deserved this or that. I certainly deserve a thump or two.

    But I can say, when a horrific, humbling event which could bring people closer to their God occurs, and some demagogue stands up and says “It wasn’t God. It was man!”

    Well… they’re just asking for worse.

    Maybe the plague is next? That can’t be blamed on global warming. Or a meteor?

    I hate this “I told you so” crap coming from these leftists who stand to profit from carbon credits.

    Carbon, by the way, has 6 protons, 6 neutrons, and 6 electrons. Oh and it is number 6 on the periodic table.

    Watch out for those carbon taxes coming soon. That is some biblical stuff. Being taxed for breathing and driving and running a business because of “global warming”?

    I think I see the beast rising from the waters…

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    • drs1969
      Posted on November 2, 2012 at 12:37am

      NYC is the Plague.
      The Jewish Bankers therein, to be specific. Their plan is to tax us into complete Communist slavery, with carbon credits, that they trade incessantly at the taxpayers’ expense. It’s the next MBS markets. Before that, Stock market. Before that Junk Bonds.

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  • pierre6812
    Posted on November 1, 2012 at 10:40pm

    Why does the radical left keep trying to dig up climate change? Their “scientists” were caught in their lie several years ago but they just can’t let it go. Perhaps they could find some other way to force their socialist agenda on us, I’m just not buying it.

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  • OhioRepublicanTOL
    Posted on November 1, 2012 at 10:38pm

    Cause you know 200 years of weather records is enough to prove this is global warming and not typical earth weather patterns… keep drinking the kool-aid nanny bloomberg!

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    • drs1969
      Posted on November 2, 2012 at 12:40am

      Bloomberg is mixing up the Kool Aid and handing it out. He is a propaganda czar.

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  • SITDOWNANDSHUTUP
    Posted on November 1, 2012 at 10:29pm

    Cyclonic activity/potential has been waning over the past decade. Sandy was a Category 1 Hurricane. According to the “Climate Change” crowd, cylonic activity was supposed to be increasing. Who’s the idiot now????? If an expert says one thing, but the opposite happens, then the expert is not an expert.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on November 1, 2012 at 10:34pm

      Stupid people, over-reacting, because they have never experienced a hurricane before. They are lucky it was only a category 1.
      Global Warming, pffffffft New York city people are idiots.

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  • BigBoss305
    Posted on November 1, 2012 at 10:29pm

    “Our cover story this week may generate controversy,but only among the stupid.”

    No controversy. I simply don’t believe in silly fairy tales. Argument over.

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  • crusaderx9
    Posted on November 1, 2012 at 10:28pm

    Doomberg lets emotionalism and frustration defeat reason, science, and fact.

    He is yet another elite who believes a BOLD LIE can overcome reality and truth…

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  • kleindropper
    Posted on November 1, 2012 at 10:24pm

    Well if that’s the case, then it might be better for the planet if the East Coast gets used to no gasoline and no electricity for the long term. The carbon footprint of the East Coast is improving by the day!

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