in an election where climate change has gone unmentioned, we have a hurricane headed for NYC

[spanone]

[aquart]

1. Climate change still isn't being mentioned, however.

[malokvale77]

2. The Secretary of the Navy...

just released a letter to Mitt Romney on clean energy. Seems The Navy is working hard to develop clean energy, over concern for their bases, due to rising coastal waters.

I ran across the posting while checking out the hurricane conditions at NAS Norfolk VA. (my grandson is stationed there).

[kentauros]

7. One project the Navy is funding

has my backing 100%, yet most have never heard of it:

Polywell Fusion

For more information: Talk-Polywell.org

[malokvale77]

8. Fascinating stuff.

I imagine Mitt would rather use that money to build more battleships. lol

[kentauros]

10. Battleships to haul cavalry!

[malokvale77]

11. Well, we can't expect those horses to swim to Iran.

[kentauros]

12. !!

[malaise]

3. Not just a hurricane

a freaking huge system

[marions ghost]

4. Not lost on me...

what are the odds?

[Chorophyll]

5. I agree with the spirit of your post, but NYC has been hit by hurricanes many times.

I'm from Long Island, currently live in Westchester. Have lived through hurricanes a bunch of times since the 1970s.

That said: we have plenty of other evidence that climate change is real, and of COURSE it should be an issue during this election, and all the time!

[clangsnwhoops]

6. Climate change

This is what climate change looks like.

[PavePusher]

13. Large storms have never hit the east coast before?

While climate change is occuring this particular storm is proof of nothing but the existance of this particular storm.

You can't extrapolate from a data set of 1.

[jenw2]

9. Great observation!

And there was also the tsunami in AK and HI caused by the expansion of the crust due to global warming. Too bad it didn't hit red states instead so we gain voters.

[PavePusher]

14. Wha.....?

[jenw2]

16. You don't think things expand when heated?

[PavePusher]

17. Do you have links to any reports with accompanying data that show ground temps....

having this influence?

I'll also add that below a few feet, ground temps stay pretty stable, regardless of air temp. So any expansion you hypothesize wouldn't seem to have much effect at the level of continental plates.

[NickB79]

18. Global warming isn't heating the planetary crust to any appreciable degree

By the time the planet's crust got to the point where it's temperature had increased even a small degree from global warming, the oceans would be boiling and all life dead.

[spanone]

15. please provide link.