Bill McKibben sees Hurricane Sandy as a window into "what the future may be like, as more and more of the world finds itself facing ever more frequent assaults from the amped-up forces of the not-so-natural world":
You can’t, as the climate-change deniers love to say, blame any particular hurricane on global warming. They’re born, as they always have been, when a tropical wave launches off the African coast and heads out into the open ocean. But when that ocean is hot—and at the moment sea surface temperatures off the northeast are five degrees higher than normal—a storm like Sandy can lurch north longer and stronger, drawing huge quantities of moisture into its clouds and then dumping them ashore.
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