I am an analogy kind of guy. I think they are incredible tools for making connections and explaining new and difficult ideas. In my opinion, nothing beats a good analogy for sheer explanatory might. So you can guess how this quotes strikes me.
On Oct. 29, Foley thumbed thusly: “Would this kind of storm happen without climate change? Yes. Fueled by many factors. Is storm stronger because of climate change? Yes.”
Eric Pooley, senior vice president of the Environmental Defense Fund (and former deputy editor of Bloomberg Businessweek), offers a baseball analogy: “We can’t say that steroids caused any one home run by Barry Bonds, but steroids sure helped him hit more and hit them farther. Now we have weather on steroids.”
Bravo.
#1 by Larry Bergan on November 1, 2012 - 5:38 pm
Don’t usually like sports analogies in politics, because they’re silly, but that one is great.
#2 by Richard Warnick on November 1, 2012 - 6:42 pm
Heckler at Romney Rally Says “Climate Caused This Monster Storm!”
Romney and climate silence. The Koch Brothers’ favorite candidate.
#3 by Larry Bergan on November 1, 2012 - 7:16 pm
You can’t be serious!
I was thinking the crowd wouldn’t be shouting USA this time, but I’ll be damned!
What IS that! Where did that come from!
#4 by Ken on November 1, 2012 - 9:37 pm
OK lets strip the weather of it’s Tour-de-France titles.
#5 by Larry Bergan on November 1, 2012 - 10:31 pm
Ken:
You can’t do that, because I remember cars floating around in France, not too long ago.
#6 by cav on November 2, 2012 - 8:03 am
I could usually handle a hurricane – were it the only thing demanding attention. But when it’s stacked on top of nearly two years of smarmy lies and destruction of the ‘homeland’ – and elsewhere it becomes a little more challenging.