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Obama’s fault!
The article has some exaggeration: “just compare the several-score deaths from Sandy to the thousands from Katrina, or the tens of thousands that perish when such storms hit Haiti or other impoverished countries”
It’s true that Haiti is great example of impoverished persons not being able to save themselves. But the victims of Katrina were killed by a faulty levee.
The tides in a full moon (solar tide added to the lunar tide) is about a foot above a lunar tide in NYC, not “several feet”.
However the rest of the article is pretty good, particularly the comment about an inch per decade of sea level rise. The author should have continued the thought about carbon taxes being wrong: for less than the cost of Sandy, NYC could have built themselves a surge barrier across the Verrazano narrows.
The houses in New Jersey were build on SAND!
I think someone famous mentioned that once.
How did the BARRIER ISLANDS get build in the first place?
Cavemen with buckets and little plastic shovels?
NO!
HURRICANES churned them all up and they’ll KEEP churning that sand for a REALLY long time.
Any humans who foolishly RE-build there will wail and lament also.
The MSM keeps saying that it was a “super storm”. That is a bunch of nonsense. There have been many bigger and stronger than this storm. What made this one so destructive was that it hit directly on the densely populated shoreline locations that were vulnerable because of their location and the way building was permitted. The storms don’t usually hit that area, but when they do (and they have in the past) they cause destruction beyond their size and strength. Most of those areas shouldn’t have been built upon without the expectation that every few years they would get wiped out. Another great example is Galveston, TX. It got wiped out recently, has been wiped off the map previously, and will be wiped off again in the future. It has nothing to do with Global Warming ... it’s located in a vulnerable area and no amount of hoping will keep it from getting wiped out again.
No, the Gulf Stream guided Sandy. Time to alter the Gulf Stream and cool North America
Without billions in government subsidies, green power collapses
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