In a stunning display of ignorance, columnist Eugene Robinson puts forth …

Hurricane Sandy: Was It A Climate Change Wake-Up Call?

We've had two once-in-a-century storms within the span of a decade. Hurricane Sandy seems likely to be the second-costliest storm in U.S. history, behind Hurricane Katrina. Lower Manhattan is struggling to recover from an unprecedented flood and the New Jersey coast is smashed beyond recognition.

Will we finally get the message?

How, at this point, can anyone deny the scientific consensus about climate change? The traditional dodge — that no one weather event can definitively be attributed to global warming — doesn't work anymore. If something looks, walks and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. Especially if the waterfowl in question is floating through your living room.

For decades now, researchers have been telling us that one of the effects of climate change would be to make the weather more volatile and violent. Well, here we are.

What message is he speaking about?

• The message of the far-left socialists and special interests that want to use global climate change to drive ideological public policy?
• That global climate change is a complex, chaotic process that is basically uncontrollable by man’s efforts?
• That the real drivers of violent weather are related to deep ocean currents and events such as El Nino/La Nina which are beyond man’s ability to fully forecast, model and control?
• That it is natural for the planet to warm as it emerges from the Little Ice Age?
• That our Planet has been hotter, cooler, with more atmospheric CO₂ and less atmospheric CO₂ with little or no industrial input from man.
• That the entire issue of carbon dioxide can be explained simply by Henry’s law and the outgassing of carbon dioxide as the oceans warm?
• That the production of carbon dioxide lags the temperature rise by 600 – 1000 years, so it is unlikely that it is causal?
• That the climate cycles are so long that the results – even if they could be measured – are unlikely to be seen for hundreds of years?

What consensus is he speaking about?

• Science is not performed by consensus, but by a controlled process of hypothesis-experiment-verification-re-verification; where skepticism is the rule rather than the exception.
• Where the most prominent global warming scientists were caught fudging the raw data, the computer models, and the peer-review process in a scandal known as climate-gate.
• Where there is an inherent bias in global warming research because projects agreeing with their sponsor’s views are more likely to be funded than those of a contrarian nature.
• Where most institutional scientists are afraid to speak out for fear of institutional, government or financial reprisals.

Yes, some researchers have told us that one of the effects of climate change would be to make for more violent weather. It is all part of the natural variability of our chaotic weather.

If you wish to read more of Robinson’s clap trap, you can find it at Hurricane Sandy: Was The Hurricane A Climate Change Wake-Up Call? - Investors.com To see who claiming what, their statements and their credentials, you can find it at Reality check: Who believes Hurricane Sandy was/was not caused by global warming?

Bottom line …

The Marxists and communists need to exploit environmental issues – that’s the way they achieve political power and funding. But there is no scientific proof that global warming was the proximate cause of Hurricane Sandy.

Fixing global climate – if at all possible – is a task like throwing money at education. It doesn’t work if the primary participants are corrupt, self-serving and driven by a toxic ideology.

-- steve