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Those crazy, radical hippies at Bloomberg Businessweek have gone and done it. With the blunt, no-nonsense cover that likely already appeared on your Facebook feed or Twitter stream or Tumblr dashboard, Businessweek dared state with certainty what so many media outlets have nervously danced around in their coverage of Superstorm Sandy: It’s Global Warming, Stupid.

The cover is sure to generate some controversy, but, as Bloomberg Businessweek editor Josh Tyrangiel tweeted, “only among the stupid.”

And, I’d add, the nefarious purveyors of disinformation -- the merchants of doubt -- that are in the pocket of the fossil fuel industry. (Who probably aren’t stupid...just greedy.)

While the cover is an instant classic, the article itself is just as great -- clear, direct, and unequivocal in the connection between extreme weather like Superstorm Sandy and manmade global climate disruption.