Weather on steroids

Next time you hear your favourite climate change denier say global warming isn't responsible for disasters like Hurricane Sandy, show her this wee chart ...

Or (gasp) suggest she read the article that cites it.

Or send her to the "It's Global Warming, Stupid!" issue of BusinessWeek, which has given us the climate metaphor of the decade ...

“We can’t say that steroids caused any one home run by Barry Bonds, but steroids sure helped him hit more and hit them farther. Now we have weather on steroids.”