Did global warming cause Romney to lose the election?

They are more likely to claim that, desperate to stop the Romney freight train, Obama called Al Gore and told him to put down the Twinkies and fire up HAARP so he could be a hero and make a Republican Governor suck his dick on TV.

"Recent scientific evidence suggests that HAARP is fully operational and has the ability of potentially triggering floods, droughts, hurricanes and earthquakes."

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/pandora/haar...

This would be the same Karl Rove who is suggesting a civil war over the election result, Hmmm sore loser ya think, it's not like in the end the vote was even close.

Whether you think Obama acted on Sandy for the votes or simply because he was a good President doing his job, both candidates had the specter of a past President sitting on his hands doing nothing as a national disaster unfolded as a reminder, now remind which side of politics was he on.

The reason Romney lost (apart from some obvious gaffs along the way like his "folder of women" was and is being discussed in the media on both sides, the rough consensus seems to be that the Republicans are concentrating on the white right wing vote which worked 20 years ago, but today the bigger voting block is no longer White but Black, Hispanic and Asian as a group who instead of whinging about the system but not voting, actually get out and vote. So not much to do with AGW and more to do with the Republicans thinking it's still 1956 rather than 2012.

Highly doubtful. Obama got his expected (this time the poll predictions were accurate) about 1-2% margin in the swing states where the action was. It is unlikely that more than about that 1-2% was swayed in the last weeks, and climate change was not probably not the swayer in most such instances (also because people who especially care about it are not mostly not swing voters to begin with). The only swing state hit by Sandy was Virginia, but Obama had a 3% margin of victory there.

All indications so far are that the GOP (which is actually neither G nor O in the sense of sticking to any principle that any of its G leaders of the past would recognize) remains firmly committed to ignorance, lying, and demagoguery.

As usual American and UK scientist are years behind Slovak high school children who ride the short yellow bus.. It is wildly known here this green house global heating hot warming is cause by humans but not of this era. UFO is nothing more than a fancy time machine transporting human 5 million years from the future. They cause this warming heating hot greenhouse to off set the coming massive ice age. Contrails containing massive amounts of carbon are ways these future freakish types peoples control the green house effect. They also gave us VHS tapes, sugar-free sweeteners and 3D-glasses that enabled us to see movies in 3D cinema..

Romney's last minute ad campaign in Ohio claiming that the manufacturing of the Jeep was moving offshored didn't fare well as it was proven false. Obama's bail out of the automobile manufacturer's saved a lot of jobs in Ohio and Romney opposed it then he came out with a false ad claiming Obama chased jobs away. Romney destroyed what little reputation he had in a battleground state.

The Hurricane certainly put Romney at a disadvantage because Obama had to do his job and look after the needs of his people while Romney had nothing to do but campaign and work on raising relief funds but that wasn't as important as his own desperate moves in advertisements.

It was a close race and certainly there are issues that Obama should review but Hurricane Sandy didn't break Romney, Romney broke Romney.

There's simply no way to attribute an individual event such as Sandy to global warming. If we had a few hundred years of observations (maybe even a few decades), we might be able to show how the warmed environment contributed to the strength of storms like Sandy or that it engendered the conditions that formed Sandy, but I think making such claims at the present time is irresponsible. Nevertheless, non-scientific people may attribute events such as Sandy to global warming, then use the Republican denial of global warming as a rationale for voting for Obama, but I kind of doubt that.

Romney lost the election for the same reason that McCain lost--to be nominated by the national Republican Party you have to take extremist views on many issues (not just AGW), but if you actually take those views you will lose the general election. As long as extremists rule the Republican Party they will lose national elections--and it's apparently even affecting them for statewide office now, as evidence by their loss of senate seats. Romney and McCain were both moderates that could have been elected President if they did not have to accept the extremist positions that their party considers as litmus tests for Republican legitimacy. Both Romney and McCain also took running mates that only helped them with extremist members of their own party, and not with middle-America. Romney had to change many of his stands in order to get the nomination, then tried to backtrack on them after he got the nomination. During the primaries he said that FEMA should be eliminated--that probably didn't go over real well after Sandy, so he tried to weasel out of it. He flip-flopped on many issues like that, including AGW.

The question is whether the Republican Party will continue to let extremists run things. If they do their chances of winning the presidency will continue to decrease, since the extremist demographic is shrinking as a percentage of the whole. Some "battleground states" will become firmly "blue" states, and what were "red" states will start slipping into the battleground category.

I think it may be part of it, but most voters were already decided even before the hurricane. I've seen some people blaming Obama for not stopping the hurricane (not the brightest bunch, mind you). I'm in eastern Massachusetts and got hit by the storm, and most people weren't worrying about the cause of the storm but the effects. There are definitely people who are saying the storm is caused by global warming, but I don't think that influenced the elections in any noticeable way. Most of the country wasn't even affected by the storm. I say conservatives are going to stick with the anti global warming agenda as not to risk losing the backing of the large oil companies.

A single even does not constitute a trend. Wake up. There were similar storms in the 1950's.

they will blame anything but themselves.

According to NBC, Obama may have LOST 800,000 votes due to the storm.

It's not the breaking point. The US and China would need to suffer to many more droughts and floods before AGW is acknowledged.

Romney lost because he said he was going to kill big bird, he thinks women who get "really" raped won't get pregnant, wants to ban contraception, and the drones believe this to be true.

I don't know what kind of idiot votes for a candidate who has continually doubled down on stupid.

Welcome to the new America, with a part time job for everyone, but atleast we have government run health care.