Climate Change And The Blizzard: Nor'easters More Fierce With Global Warming, Scientists Say »
Lynne Peeples | February 08, 2013 at 08:40 PM
Climate change may or may not have helped generate the nor'easter lashing the East Coastthis weekend. Such storms happen with some regularity, after all. But the amount of snow the storm called "Nemo" ultimately dumps, and the extent of flood damage it leaves in its wake, may well have ties to global warming, climate scientists suggested. Michael Mann, a climatologist who directs the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, compared a major storm ...
