New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared Friday that New York had never been hit by hurricanes or other strong storms before climate change, prompting double-takes and fact-checks from those who haven’t forgotten, for example, Hurricanes Hazel, Carol and Edna.
The Democratic governor’s comments came after he toured flooding in upstate New York brought by a fierce Halloween storm that brought winds of up to 60 mph and as much as five inches of rain in some areas.
“Anyone who questions extreme weather and climate change is just delusional at this point,” Mr. Cuomo told MSNBC in an interview. “We have seen in the state of New York what everyone has seen—we see these weather patterns that we never had before. We didn’t have hurricanes. We didn’t have super storms. We didn’t have tornadoes.”
Gov. Cuomo: “We didn’t have hurricanes or superstorms or tornadoes” before global warming pic.twitter.com/4c20RyliA5
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 1, 2019
Meteorologist Ryan Maue quipped, “Um, yeah, not so much, @NYGovCuomo,” tweeting, “Cuomo has a history of making false statements about the weather and climate of New York. Hopefully he can get better informed.”
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How do you explain this one Cuomo?
A hurricane that hit Long Island on September 21, 1938. The hurricane was estimated to have killed between 682 and 800 people, damaged or destroyed over 57,000 homes, and caused property losses estimated at $306 million. Even as late as 1951, damaged trees and buildings were still seen in the affected areas. To date it remains the most powerful, costliest and deadliest hurricane in New England history.
And $306 million in 1938 is slightly more than $5.5 billion today, Gov.
Faacts.. WE need no stinkin facts.
In the ’38 hurricane my mother said she had to swim for it from the Outlet Building in downtown Providence. There’s a bronze plaque on the front of the building with an arrow showing the high water mark from that storm, which is 8′ above the sidewalk.
Cuomo is proof that you don’t have to have fourteen bullets in the brain to be a deer in the headlights.
Do any of these guys ever listen to what they say when they say it?
The “Duke” said it best: “Ya can’t fix stupid.”
Yes you can fix stupid. Every county of every state in the US has an SPCA that sponsers free and or low cost spay and neuter programs.
All we have to do is get stupid to the vet.
I’m ok with that. AS WELL as spaying/neutering everyone that uses planned murderhood two or more times.
Anyone who cannot see at this point that any person running for governor of any state should be mandated to undergo comprehensive mental health examinations need only look at the governors of new york and of california. Not to mention the nutcases that vote them into office.
Well, since the left’s pushing the issue “to own a gun, you need a mental evaluation”.. PERHAPS WE SHOULD have the same eval on the right to vote!
We have all heard the phrase “dead man walking” well Cuomo is the inspiration for a new one, “dumb man walking.” What an idiot. Sure glad he is not ruining my state.
I’ll give Cuomo the benefit of the doubt. Let’s see how well this plays out for him.
The hurricane he’s talking about was Sandy. It hit in 2012. This was before Trump took office, or even before he entered the race. So we can’t blame it on Trump. But then Obama promised to heal the land when he took office, and the seas would obey his commands. Let’s also give Obama the benefit of the doubt. He had 100% control over the weather, ocean currents, climate, everything.
Therefore logically we must conclude that it was Obama’s fault for the hurricane. There can be no other possible answer. I mean, Obama’s not a liar, right? If he said he could reverse climate change then he could. But did he WANT to?
Also of note, no hurricanes hit NYC since Trump took office. Trump loves the people of NYC too much to allow hurricanes or climate change to hurt them. But that nasty Obama did NOT love NYC and allowed climate change to do all that damage.
I’m sensing a pattern here. Conservatives love the climate the way it is, and Libs yearn for extreme radical and irreversible climate change to destroy everything.
HE DESERVES no benefit of the doubt.. NO LIBERAL does.
I see stupid people like Cuomo everywhere! They walk and talk just like we do and they dont even know they are stupid.
Apparently their voters also don’t recognize stupid when they see it or as long as stupid distributes loot to them, Dem voters just don’t care. Stupids/socialists can’t keep the money flowing but Dem voters can’t see beyond today.
Of course not. ALL modern tech/society has IN GRAINED into their pea brains “GET IT NOW, who cares what comes tomorrow”..
He’s a politician. Therefore it’s more like: “Dumb man talking”.
If it wasn’t for his father, Andrew Cuomo would be a nobody. He got where he is on his father’s name. He has been living under his father’s shadow all his life and is nowhere near the man his father was and that isn’t saying much about the old man either. I had more respect for cockroaches. All his life he has been desperately trying to make a bigger splash than his old man did.
Cuomo is the typical Dem politician resorting to cheap theatrics, angry tirades & bogus info to make themselves seem relevant or important.
Catastrophic unpredictable weather events have been around since earth was created & history is proof that IPCC dictates or Paris Agreements or Green New Deals money grabbing flim flams will not have the slightest effect on the weather.
Reliable scientific theory is that along with solar radiation, global warming & cooling is connected to shifting of earth’s tectonic plates which creates large scale changes to continental masses that impacts ocean & atmospheric currents & triggers volcanic activity that releases carbon dioxide into the air.
Some of worst natural disasters in our history were before the industrial age re:
The 1871 Peshtigo, WI forest wildfire burned 1.2 million acres & started as brush fire, likely by RR workers laying tracks, after unusually dry summer.
The 1900 Galveston hurricane.
The 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
The 1925 Great Tri-State Tornado, the 151-235 mile tornado track from MO to IL to IN was longest ever recorded in world.
There is no scientific proof that any of the money grabbing BS climate change proposals can regulate tectonic plate movement or could have prevented any past or will prevent any future earthquakes, volcano eruptions, hurricanes, tornados, floods, droughts or other catastrophic climatic changes to the earth.
you forgot the New Madrid earthquake that caused a huge section of the earth to drop several feet. The Mississippi river flowed backwards for 3 days filling the dropped land up with water. The huge lake is still there to this day.
Buzz: Tks for New Madrid info, had never heard of it before.
Guess it isn’t well known as San Francisco because the earthquake origin area was scarcely populated back in 1812.
Still amazing to learn that those quakes caused very severe ground shaking over an area of 232,000 sq miles!
Reelfoot Lake, yeah.
I had to look that one up.. Wonder why it’s often ignored by various news outlets when they go over the ‘top ten’ lists??
What a DumbAss! Here’s the list!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_York_hurricanes
What happened to the days when a Governor wouldn’t make such factually wrong statements? Some I’m sure have lied, this one is just way out there. He really should know better.
What a far cry from his father.
Even before I knew who cuomo was when I saw his picture I knew is was a lying crook. My first impression of him was the right one.
Truth and Facts are the enemy of the Left.
I was born in Yonkers, NY in 1947. I distinctly remember multiple hurricanes hitting us in the 1950’s. His father could have set him straight.
Look up Hurricane Hazel and Carol. Both struck NY in 1954 as serious hurricanes. Over 100 mph winds if memory serves.
A dozen Hurricanes hit NY between 1950 and 1974 according to Wikipedia.
How stupid do you have to be to lie about documented historic weather events that anyone can look up? Looks like Cuomo is the real denier! Why are New Yorkers not embarrassed at this level of dumbness in their governor? Tell me whom you elect and I’ll tell you your own political IQ – obviously lacking in urban New Yorkers.
From the father, “Mario-the-Pious”, on forward to the son, “Fredo-the-Appleseed”, it never falls far from the tree.
I believe that Cuomo is not stupid, but rather severely mentally ill, and no one should pick on the mentally ill. The only problem is getting Cuomo to be treated for being so severely mentally ill. I used to think he was just mildly retarded, but, it is obvious he is severely mentally ill and needs treatment. SO SAD
What? How the heck is he just mental?? And why shouldn’t we pick on him, if he was?
It’s just wrong to pick on retarded or mentally disabled people.
Sorry, i don’t think so.. IF THEY deserve it (and cuomo most definitely does) THEN YES they should get made fun of.. MENTAL OR NOT>