Hurricane Sandy: Where’s the climate-change angle, media?
For days, weather forecasters gave their viewers a lot of trees when it came to coverage of Hurricane Sandy. We learned about the speed of the storm, its famous left turn, its millibars and its (quite accurately portrayed) destructive potential. Now people are asking for more forest. Climate-change forest, that is. Is Sandy the creature of a warming planet?
Weather Channel spokeswoman Shirley Powell said, “Climate change informed our forecasting of this storm from the beginning. We have been completely focused on saving lives and property as the storm approached and was hitting, but as the storm passes, you will see more discussion of this topic in our coverage on TV and online. We have two prominent bloggers that have passionately discussed this topic in the past — Jeff Masters and Stu Ostro.”
Hurricane Sandy: Where’s the climate-change angle, media?