Three ways climate change made Hurricane Sandy worse

National Public Radio: It’s tempting to look at a colossal storm like Sandy - the lives lost, the millions without power - and lay the blame completely on climate change. But Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University, says it`s not that simple. “We can never say one specific event is because of climate change, but what we can say is that climate change has altered the background conditions over which these events occur," Hayhoe tells us. A hurricane at this time of year, for......

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