Open Thread Plus Frankenstorm Flashback Cartoon

(Before It's News)

First published on ClimateProgress.org, a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, which was recently named one of Time magazine’s Top 25 blogs of 2010.

Opine Away.

This awesome cartoon from xkcd.com about the end of the monster 2005 hurricane season seems strangely appropriate as we await the worst of Frankenstorm:

Reprinted with permission. Full-size cartoon here.

“The climate has shifted to a new state capable of delivering rare and unprecedented weather events,” explained meteorologist Jeff Masters earlier this year.

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