Posted on 10/30/2012 9:29:45 AM PDT by chessplayer
Political analyst Meghan McCain, daughter of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), is challenging widespread GOP skepticism about climate change in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
“So are we still going to go with climate change not being real fellow republicans [sic]?” McCain wrote, via Twitter, around midnight as the storm was slamming ashore.
Both outlets look at a 2012 study by the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on extreme weather and climate change.
That study finds that researchers currently have “low confidence” in tying cyclone activity in recent decades to climate change.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Yep.
From Wikipedia: The Labor Day Hurricane was the only storm known to make landfall in the US with a minimum central pressure below 900 mbar; only two others have struck the country with winds of Category 5 strength. It remains the third-strongest Atlantic hurricane on record, surpassed only by Hurricanes Gilbert (1988) and Wilma (2005).
Does McCain still pass up cheeseburgers?
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