As you might expect, there's a lot of opinion being expressed in blogs at the moment that links the Bangladesh cyclone to climate change. Science writer Chris Mooney (named one of Wired magazine's "sexiest geeks" in 2005) argues in DeSmogBlog that while the closeness of the devastation of the cyclone, and the release of the new UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report is obviously coincidental, together they add impetus to the urgency of fighting climate change.

Climate change author Joseph Romm, who worked for the US Department of Energy under Clinton, praises a New York Times article linking the cyclone to climate change in his blog, Climate Progress.

Oxfam's senior researcher Kate Raworth, author of a paper on financing poor countries adaptation to climate change says: "We know that climate change is likely to make storms and cyclones like this more intense. Whether or not this particular cyclone was caused by climate change, Bangladesh will need to be more prepared for more events like this as a result of climate change.". [ Quoted on the UN humanitarian news service IRIN's website. ]