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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Yup. The 1939 hurricane tore through the Hamptons and obliterated some of the mansions owned by the rich and famous of the day
Is this like if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound?
Cuomo is a legend in his own mind...
I think you mean 1938.
160 mph winds. Deadly hurricane destroyed much of cape cod and Rhode island coastline.
Hundredsof years of recorded weather events prove Cuomo a jackass liar.
Hey! That's offensive... to rocks! Any rock is smarter than that dumb POS.
Slightly better than deblasio. At least Cuomo stays in NY.
New England has experienced devastating hurricanes since before freeways, rush hour traffic, and widespread coal power plants.
One of those hurricanes believed to be CAT 5 in the way its destructive force was described happened in the 18th century.
One of the most recent devastated the Northeast in 1938 killing thousans of people. That hurricane account was posted on FR in January 2017. Cuomo might absorb some IQ points if he bothered to read FR.
Hurricane Sandy's predecessor, the Great Hurricane of 1938 (Tr) (Re: Pruitt Hearing)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3515701/posts
Here's an excerpt:
Historian Cherie Burns discusses the 1938 natural disaster that shocked New England.
Back in the 1930s, many New Englanders liked to say that hurricanes never hit their part of the country. They discovered their assumptions were incorrect on a Wednesday afternoon in September 1938.
The Great Hurricane of 1938 slammed into Long Island and Rhode Island, killing 564 in southern New England. Thousands of buildings and boats were destroyed.
Historian Cherie Burns wrote about the disaster in her 2005 book "The Great Hurricane: 1938." Publishers Weekly raved, "From start to finish, this powerful story of nature's fury and human survival pulls the reader in and doesn't let go."
In the FR post there were some posters who actually remembered that hurricane and there were some posters whose parents suffered through it. So it's not something forgotten, it's still very real to people today.
Scroll down at the link to see a video of the destruction. Between 600 and 800 people killed at least. Thousands and thousands of homes and buildings were destroyed.
When the FR post was created in Jan 2017, President Elect Trump's pick for EPA Director Scott Pruitt was getting slammed while hysterical leftists were touting that 'Climate Change has caused SUPERSTORMS to create massive destruction of the Northeast'.
File the massive destruction of the 'Great Hurricane of 1938' as evidence against man-made Climate Change causing massively destructive superstorms (Hurricane Sandy of 2012).
Here's one of Cuomo's fellow idiots peeing her pants about fake climate change:
My son graduated form Tulane in New Orleans right after Katrina. The commencement speakers were Bush Sr. and Bill Clinton.
Clinton said global warming started that decade which means it didn’t exist when he was President.
He said Katrina was caused by global warming and that severe hurricanes would be happening all the time now.
I stayed in my chair and laughed while all his disciples stood and cheered.
And there have been hurricanes hitting N.Y. since colonial times and yes, even prior to that!
This person is an idiot.
CUOMO IS A FOOL.
CUOMO IS A FOOL.
Mario raised f-ing retarded children.
Two Fredos in one family!
“Galveston begs to differ”
For historical perspective, 4,000 dead in 1900 at Galveston.
Why are Democrats such liars?
When I was a kid, grownups would point to destruction not yet repaired a good five years later from hurricane Hazel in 1954
https://www.weather.gov/mhx/Oct151954EventReview
A hurricane off the Florida coast sank 14 Spanish ships & killed almost
2,000 people just a couple of hundred yards off shore.
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