Cars piled on top of each other at the entrance to a garage on South Willliam Street in Lower Manhattan October 31, 2012 in New York as the city begins to clean up after Hurricane Sandy.

Was Climate Change Responsible for Hurricane Sandy?

The Leonard Lopate Show | Oct 28, 2014

Atmospheric scientist and Columbia University professor Adam Sobel discusses whether Hurricane Sandy was a freak event or a harbinger of things to come, if climate change was responsible for the storm, and why we were not prepared for this unprecedented "Superstorm." Sobol's new book is Storm Surge: Hurricane Sandy, Our Changing Climate, and Extreme Weather of the Past and Future.

Storm Surge, by Adam Sobel
Storm Surge, by Adam Sobel
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