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1. November 1, 2012 01:00 PM

   Bad hippie!

   Is it wrong to ‘scold’ exaggerations about climate and weather?

   By Curtis Brainard

   David Roberts has a long essay over at Grist complaining about "scolds" (The New York Times’s Andrew Revkin, in particular) who criticize others for making too much of the link between climate change and extreme weather events like Hurricane Sandy. Roberts’s commentary jumps off from a self-reflective post by Revkin about whether he is guilty of what one of his...

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2. November 3, 2011 12:30 PM

   Like the Odds of a Heart Attack?

   The limits of medical analogies for the climate-weather connection

   By Curtis Brainard

   With the latest death toll from floods in Thailand reaching nearly 400 people, reporters have had yet another opportunity to explore the connection between climate change and extreme weather events. On Wednesday, the Los Angeles Times published an op-ed by Michael Lemonick, a senior writer for Climate Central, a nonprofit journalism and science organization based in Princeton, New Jersey. The...

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3. October 30, 2012 04:15 PM

   Sandy’s climate context

   Why generalizing about extreme weather helps no one

   By Curtis Brainard

   It should come as no surprise that as Hurricane Sandy spiraled up the eastern seaboard, a variety of media outlets sought to explain the so-called super storm’s relationship to climate change. A few did well, but generalizations about extreme weather continue to mar this type of coverage. Take Rebecca Leber’s attempt to bash the press for ignoring climate change at...

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