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Train Tracks Washed Away by Hurricane Sandy - (Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority of the State of New York / Flickr)
Andrea Saul currently serves as Presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s press secretary, but in 2006 she was heavily involved in the attack against the scientific evidence showing that climate change was happening, humans were to blame and the result would be extreme disruption of weather patterns.
Shortly after Hurricane Katrina leveled New Orleans Saul had this to say in a press release:
Coming off one of the most devastating hurricane seasons in recent memory, many are quick to blame the strength and frequency of these storms on global warming. Leading climate scientists, however, say there is no link between increased storm activity and a massive change in global climate.
No coincidence that Saul was at the time working for the PR firm DCI Group who was paid millions by oil giant ExxonMobil to downplay concerns about climate change.
Saul is well-versed in the role of climate science spindoctor and showed that in July, 2011 when she told Politico that:
“Gov. Romney does not think greenhouse gases are pollutants within the meaning of the Clean Air Act, and he does not believe that the EPA should be regulating them,” said Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul. “CO2 is a naturally occurring gas. Humans emit it every time they exhale.”
Yes, CO2 is natural, but so is water and it is perfectly safe until you are drowning in it.
So what is Saul going to say on behalf of Romney in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the latest and most extreme example of how our climate is changing for the worse? There is very little wiggle room this time around.
If voters weren’t looking for leaders and long term solutions on the issue of extreme weather and climate change before Hurricane Sandy, they sure are now.
Last year, the US broke the record for the most billion-dollar weather disasters in a year, which was 14 events costing a total of $47 billion. Just the other day the insurance giant Munich Re released a new report finding that the number of weather-related loss events each in year in the United States has grown 500% over the last 30 years, costing Americans over one trillion dollars.
And, of course if the trends continue, extreme weather is only going to destroy more homes, more roads, more buildings… not to mention more lives.
This is as much an issue related to the economy as it is a human rights and environmental degradation and people like Andrea Saul and her boss Mitt Romney need to stop spinning and start taking climate change and extreme weather seriously.
Guess we will see what happens. Any predictions?
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Storm calculations were wrong. The predicters used a formula that relied on a graph based on standard algabra. Where this model is wrong is that algabra does not properly offer an object component model and incorrectly – for the weather situation – assumes everything is just baked in and simply gets a little bigger within the limits of statistical standard deviations. This is the wrog model to use. You need calculus which incorporates a better defined component object model. Given the sum of the parts is greater than the whole, you can easily see that adding in swaths of ever larger weather patterns is not simply bigger but bigger in parts. And in a three dimensional change, that exponential is not a square but ^3 calculation.
The imbecilic neanderthal repubers live in denial of everything that costs them or their pimps any money. They sold themselves to whoever pays them the most to lie.
prediction? BIGGER AND BADDER STORMS YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTHING YET.
Soon no one will have coverage for “natural causes” Or “act’s of god” And you can be sure corporate malfeasance will never be deemed a cause. Theft may be all you could insure for, then how could they even deal with the banking industry. My point is don’t invest with insurance company’s.
Leading scientists…No link: She may lie about other things as well. I she and Mitt have each other to spin to…Plus Ann.