I didn’t know there was conflict among scientists concerning melting off in the North. The dispute centers around the cause. One side blames nature, the other man.
And again, I was very sorry to learn about the loss of your home. It is infuriating that people like Gore can take advantage of tragedies like yours, to push a myth on which they stake their plans to make billions of $'s in profits (Carbon Credit Exchange).
Hurricanes have been occasionally hitting the northeast coast of America for all of recorded history. They are less common than the Caribbean variety but because of the greater temperature differences between the hot Gulf air and what comes in to meet it from Canada they can be exceedingly violent. I rode out one in late 1986 a few days after wife to be and I moved to Bergen County New Jersey from Texas. No matter where you choose to live nature has some kind of possible disaster on tap to send. Here in the Midwest we have tornadoes and blizzards and always will.