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What We Can and Can't Say About Global Warming and Hurricane Dean

By cmooney on August 21, 2007.

I've just done an entry at the Huffington Post discussing this subject. Short version: It's complicated (what else is new?), but we have every reason to be worried.

Here's Dean over land, now weakened down to Category 3 but still maintaining some semblance of an eye for the moment:

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P.S.: Welcome Andrew Sullivan readers...Sheril and I hope you'll stay a while here at "The Intersection"! And for a more in depth treatment of the subject matter, in addition to the link above see my book, Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming.

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