Motley Fool: Nothing gets the American public to pay attention to climate change quite like the flooding of America’s most famous city.
In the past week, almost 50,000 news articles have been published linking Hurricane Sandy to a changing climate. That’s more than a third the number of climate change articles published in the 12 months prior to Sandy’s upgrade to hurricane status. Thousands of those pre-Sandy pieces are little more than petulant environmentalists stumping for featured status at the presidential…