Hurricane Sandy: Can we blame climate change?

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Damage is viewed in the Rockaway neighborhood where the historic boardwalk was washed away during Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 31, 2012 in the Queens borough of New York City.
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Maggie Koerth-Baker, Boing Boing science editor, joins The Daily Circuit Friday to talk about the link between severe weather and climate change. Can we attribute Hurricane Sandy to climate change?

Koerth-Baker will also discuss the future of storm predicting, why Americans aren't prepared for the next wave of big storms and what exactly a hurricane's 'eyewall' is.

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