DADvocate

When I was young we had hurricanes, big, bad storms that came roaring out of the Atlantic to wreak havoc and destruction where ever they wished. We looked upon these as naturally occurring storms just as thunderstorms and tornadoes. Now I wonder if we'll ever have a hurricane, or other significant weather event, that someone won't feel obligated to tie to global warming.

Chris Mooney at HuffPo couldn't resist. He actually makes a valiant attempt to be calm and logical. He almost succeeds except for a case of the "Nevertheless's."

We can't blame any one hurricane event on global warming directly. Nevertheless, ...

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we just don't know.

Nevertheless, ....

But I actually like Mooney's approach. "We have to be careful what we claim and how we claim it,..." He's cautioning against being too alarmist and/or making unsupportable claims. Unfortunately, some of his commenters disagree.

Chris, stop working so hard to appear "reasonable" about climate change. People need a portrait of the possible, in all its ugly detail,...

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great point jbatch - it is ugly!
for all the naysayers of Climate Change, for those of us who don't have our eyes closed, say "JUST WAIT - cuz this kind-of weather isn't going away and will only continue to worsen!

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The difference being:
If WE'RE 100% wrong about GW, the WORST to happen will be clean(er) air and water.

If you're 1% wrong, it may spell disaster for all generations to come.

And so on.

As for me, I've decided to take the Al Gore approach to this monumental crisis. Write a book, make a movie, travel by private jet, own mansions, that's mansions plural, that suck up energy and get fat and rich. Now, to find a publisher...