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Originally Posted by jd3189
Agreed, but these storms don't come every year or even decades. Hurricane Sandy was a once-in-a-lifetime event. Still, the city needs to be prepared for anything and everything.
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No, that is absolutely false. Climate change is my area of expertise, and I can tell you that third standard deviation storms are happening once every few years all over the globe. It's very sad that misinformation campaigns run by the same "scientists" who said that smoking doesn't cause cancer have shaped an extraordinarily ignorant public discussion about climate change. The facts are that we know almost unequivocally that these storms are becoming MUCH more frequent. This claim is based on observational evidence, not projections. Sandy was merely foreshadowing. This USED to be a once-in-a-lifetime event. That will never be the case again in your lifetime, so get used to it. It's time for adaptation. The time for sitting around with our thumbs up our asses has passed.