Posted on 11/02/2019 6:31:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
On Friday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) said that hurricanes, superstorms, and tornadoes did not occur before climate change. In the same breath, he said that anyone who questions the left's climate-alarmist hysteria is "just delusional." He may want to check in a mirror.
After he finished berating President Donald Trump in an interview with MSNBC, Cuomo turned to his latest attempt to enforce climate change orthodoxy.
"You know, anyone who questions extreme weather and climate change is just delusional at this point," Cuomo said. "We have seen in the State of New York what everyone is seeing. We see these weather patterns that we never had before. We didn’t have hurricanes, we didn’t have superstorms, we didn’t have tornadoes."
While it is at least plausible that carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels might lead to increasing global temperatures and rising sea levels, it takes a special kind of insanity to think that there were no hurricanes or tornadoes before human beings started burning carbon for energy.
Even interpreting Cuomo's words charitably, the governor said that New York State did not experience hurricanes, superstorms, and tornadoes until the effects of manmade climate change. It is difficult to assess this claim, because written records do not go very far back, but even this less delusional suggestion is entirely incorrect.
An analysis of sedimentary evidence from New Jersey showed that a major hurricane struck the New York/New Jersey area between 1278 and 1438, long before the internal combustion engine. Another hurricane tracked parallel to the East Coast with impacts on New England and New York in August 1635. On September 8, 1667, a "severe storm" was reported in Manhattan.
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Galveston begs to differ.
I doubt that he can dress himself.
We didn’t have sniveling brats before Mrs. Cuomo started pumping them out either.
Technically he’s right because climate change has been with us since we’ve had an atmosphere (i.e. a long, long time).
Fredo is a dumb as a rock.
While it is at least plausible that carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels might lead to increasing global temperatures and rising sea levels...
Any science guys out there.
IS it plausible or NOT?
Thanks.
That’s some scary sh## right there, posting to each other at the same time.
Well, great minds and all... :)
OMG I lived through hurricanes on the East Coast in 1960 is this IDIOT out of his mind!!! I guess they NEVER happened because there was not a 24 hour cable news cycle!!! GIVE ME A DAMN BREAK!!!
So, there were no hurricanes before they were first recorded?
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Two Fredos in one family!
I am trying to determine which of the Cuomos is the bigger idiot.
It is almost spooky.
Hurricane Andrew
August 16, 1992 – August 28, 1992
That’s a why did the chicken cross the road conundrum. Just because they did or in the Cuomo’s case because they are.
You’ve offended rocks everywhere
Check 1939 there was a hurricane that went through New York Long Island
Boxes of them.
You really have to ask why Now Yorkers aren’t embarrassed to have this clown running their state.
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