Professor Rood on Hurricane Sandy and climate change

Posted: October 28, 2012

“There has been little written about how Hurricane Sandy highlights the dangerous absence of climate change in US politics,” Rood wrote in a commentary for Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail.

Rood states that the storm reveals the weather-related vulnerabilities of U.S. society.

“We see the connections between subway tunnels, financial markets, chemical plants, refineries, environmental risk, and the personal loss of houses by wind, flood, and fire – all rooted in increased weather volatility in a warming climate.”


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