How Super Sandy sucked up warming sea surface
2 Nov 2012

Anthropogenic climate change has contributed to sea surface warming, influencing the intensity of storms like Hurricane Sandy, a leading climate scientist believes.
Sea surface temperatures off the American East Coast were nearly 3deg warmer than usual this autumn – a near record – and 0.6deg of that could be linked to climate change, said Dim Coumou, an earth systems analyst at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany.
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