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| Has anyone heard Fox News or CNN use the words climate change (Hurricane Sandy, 30 October)? Of course no single weather event can be ascribed solely to climate change, but what will it take to make them take notice? Areas never threatened since New York was built are being inundated. In Delaware, 26 hurricanes were recorded in the 19th century – about one every five years. From 1900 to 1949, the rate rose slightly to one every four years. But 1950-74 saw almost one a year; and 1975-2000 over one a year. Since 2000, 27 have occurred – over two a year. The same statistics, with small variations, apply to New Jersey and New York. Anyone spot a trend? Or even a hockey stick? Professor Peter Gardiner Ringmer, East Sussex | Has anyone heard Fox News or CNN use the words climate change (Hurricane Sandy, 30 October)? Of course no single weather event can be ascribed solely to climate change, but what will it take to make them take notice? Areas never threatened since New York was built are being inundated. In Delaware, 26 hurricanes were recorded in the 19th century – about one every five years. From 1900 to 1949, the rate rose slightly to one every four years. But 1950-74 saw almost one a year; and 1975-2000 over one a year. Since 2000, 27 have occurred – over two a year. The same statistics, with small variations, apply to New Jersey and New York. Anyone spot a trend? Or even a hockey stick? Professor Peter Gardiner Ringmer, East Sussex |
| • When I was growing up in the Caribbean in the 1930s, the hurricane rhyme was: "June too soon, July stand by, August it must, September remember, October all over." Chris Birch London | • When I was growing up in the Caribbean in the 1930s, the hurricane rhyme was: "June too soon, July stand by, August it must, September remember, October all over." Chris Birch London |
| • Given that the consequences of Hurricane Sandy are being dealt with by firefighters, police, transport staff, soldiers and other public sector workers, will the Republicans still quote with approval Ronald Reagan's witticism: "The most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help?'." Paul Hewitson Berlin, Germany | • Given that the consequences of Hurricane Sandy are being dealt with by firefighters, police, transport staff, soldiers and other public sector workers, will the Republicans still quote with approval Ronald Reagan's witticism: "The most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help?'." Paul Hewitson Berlin, Germany |
| • Is Sandy, the hurricane now threatening the US and at the forefront of our media, by any chance related to the hurricane, also called Sandy, which recently took 69 lives in Haiti, Cuba and other Caribbean countries, but which was not similarly newsworthy? Peter McKenna Liverpool | • Is Sandy, the hurricane now threatening the US and at the forefront of our media, by any chance related to the hurricane, also called Sandy, which recently took 69 lives in Haiti, Cuba and other Caribbean countries, but which was not similarly newsworthy? Peter McKenna Liverpool |
| • If the storm had proved to be a damp squib, would the forecasters have been prosecuted for wasting time and money? Margaret Davis London | • If the storm had proved to be a damp squib, would the forecasters have been prosecuted for wasting time and money? Margaret Davis London |
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