A link between climate change and Joplin tornadoes? Never! – The Washington Post

24 May

Sounds like weather particles have caucused and are in a conspiracy against us. Or maybe it’s just anthropogenic climate change. We’re conspiring against ourselves.

Because if you asked yourself what it meant that the Amazon has just come through its second hundred-year drought in the past five years, or that the pine forests across the western part of this continent have been obliterated by a beetle in the past decade — well, you might have to ask other questions. Such as: Should President Obama really just have opened a huge swath of Wyoming to new coal mining? Should Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sign a permit this summer allowing a huge new pipeline to carry oil from the tar sands of Alberta? You might also have to ask yourself: Do we have a bigger problem than $4-a-gallon gasoline?

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