Will Climate Change Get Some Respect Now?

By Nicolas D. Kristof, Columnist, The New York

Hurricane Sandy has caused major destruction throughout the East Coast and Barack Obama and Mitt Romney decided not have a talk on it. Now isn't time to have little discussion on the matter now.

Hurricanes hitting the Northeast date back to far as 1804 but scientist believe that increasing carbon emissions could make more storms and even worst then Sandy.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo tells President Obama "we have a 100-year flood every two years now" and NY times has said 3 of biggest floods have occurred in Lower Manhattan since 1900 for several reasons.

• Hurricanes form when the ocean becomes warm and the East Coast  has some of the hottest temperatures in history. Scientist's believe the heat is formed by natural variation and some human climate changes.
• It's said that computer models of future hurricanes won't happen more but get stronger in this century.
• Rising seas also tribute to hurricanes. NYC Panel says coastal waters could rise two feet by 2050 and another 4 by the end of the century.

This shows future hurricanes could have a greater radius and destruction in the future so if you live on the East Coast watch yourself?

Also it seems politicians have stop caring because articles on climate change dropped 41% in the least in the last 2 years. Guess that percentage is going increase thanks to Sandy. Now maybe we can actually start caring about happens in our country and not ourselves all the time.

Just in case this happens again FEMA needs to get right on top of it instead of waiting for a while and to think Romney wanted to privatize it.

In conclusion the government needs show more concern on climate because who knows what the future will hold for the East Coast and with Barack Obama in office are country could now improve. I think with Obama should focus his attention on climate and setup precautionary methods for the future.