Gov. Cuomo Claims Hurricanes, Tornados Didn’t Exist Before Climate Change

1) If history doesn’t say what you want, just rewrite it to meet your manifesto philosophy.
2) If historical temperature data doesn’t meet your climate alarmist agenda, see #1

“Climate change” was devastating New York long before CO2 began to rise:
September 8, 1667 — A ‘severe storm’ is reported in Manhattan and is reported to be a continuation of a powerful hurricane which affected the Mid-Atlantic.

October 29, 1693 — The Great Storm of 1693 causes severe damage on Long Island, and is reported to create the Fire Island Cut as a result of the coast-changing storm surge and waves.

September 23, 1785 — Several large ships crash into Governors Island as a result of powerful waves which are reported to have been generated by a tropical cyclone.

August 19, 1788 — A hurricane strikes New York City or Long Island and is reported to have left the west side of the Battery “laid in ruins” after severe flooding occurs.

October 9, 1804 — Heavy snow falls in Eastern New York peaking at 30 inches (75 cm) as a hurricane tracks northward along the East Coast and becomes extratropical, as cold air fed into the system.

September 5, 1815 — A hurricane tracks over North Carolina and parallels the East Coast before producing a heavy rainstorm in New York.

September 24, 1815 — Several hundred trees fall and the majority of the fruit was stripped off apple trees just prior to harvesting time after a hurricane makes landfall on Long Island.

September 16, 1816 — A possible hurricane strikes New York City, but damage remains unknown.

August 9, 1817 — A tropical storm produces heavy rainfall in New York City and Long Island.

September 3, 1821 — The 1821 Norfolk and Long Island hurricane results in severe damage on Long Island and is accompanied by storm surge of 13 feet (4 m). High wind causes a ship to crash on Long Island killing 17 people.

June 4, 1825 — A hurricane moves off the East Coast and tracks south of New York causing several ship wrecks, and killing seven people.

August 27, 1827 — High tides are reported in New York City which are caused by a hurricane offshore.

August 1, 1830 – A hurricane passes to the east of New York and produces gale-force winds to New York City and Long Island.

October 4, 1841 — Gale–force winds affect New York City as a hurricane tracks north along the East Coast of the United States. Damage is estimated at $2 million (1841 USD, $41 million 2007 USD).

October 13, 1846 — The Great Havana Hurricane of 1846 tracks inland, causing some damage to New York City

October 6, 1849 — Severe structural damage occurs in New York City and Long Island with the passage of a hurricane to the east.

July 19, 1850 — A hurricane destroys a Coney Island bath house and causes heavy rain, although damage is unknown. This storm destroyed the ship Elizabeth off Fire Island and drowned American transcendentalist Margaret Fuller.

August 24, 1850 — A storm that is reported to be a hurricane affects New York and New England although there is no known damage.

September 9, 1854 — A hurricane brushes the East Coast from Florida to New England causing rain on Long Island.

September 16, 1858 — Low barometric pressure of 28.87 inches mercury at Sag Harbor is reported, and is thought to be associated with a tropical cyclone which causes no known damage

September 6, 1869 — A category 3 hurricane makes landfall in Rhode Island and brushes Long Island, which is affected by rain, although minimal damage resulted from the storm.

October 28, 1872 — A tropical storm passes over New York City and Long Island.

October 1, 1874 — New York City and the Hudson Valley receives rainfall after a minimal tropical storm tracked over Eastern New York.

September 19, 1876 — The remnants of the San Felipe hurricane track over western New York State, although damage is unknown.

October 24, 1878 — The state is affected by tropical storm-force winds and heavy rain with the passage of a hurricane, which made landfall in Virginia.

August 22, 1888 — A tropical storm tracks over New York City before tracking north along the East Coast of the United States.

August 24, 1893 — Hog Island is washed away by strong storm surge associated with a tropical storm of unknown strength. According to HURDAT, this was a Category 1 hurricane that struck the western end of the Rockaway Peninsula, passing through Brooklyn as a weakening hurricane. Manhattan Island saw gale-force winds to 56 mph.

August 29, 1893 Sea Islands hurricane moves thorough the Hudson Valley as a tropical storm. Lives were lost in the Rockaways and when tow boats were destroyed at various points along the Hudson River. Roofs, structures, boats and crops were destroyed or damaged from Brooklyn to as far west as Dunkirk. Winds of 54 and 57 MPH recorded in New York and Albany respectively.

Cuomo is a denier, in that he denies the clear history of extreme weather events before CO2 hit 300 ppm.

We dig a good bit further back in history and cite the tornado that struck central Washington, D.C. at the height of the Britsh seige of our capital city in 1813 (near the climax of the War of 1812). This extreme weather event, as much as any military force staged by U.S. forces, convinced the attackers to retreat from Washington.
And while the historical conclusion of that tornado may be largely anecdotal, the verbal narratives of the time, make a very convincing case for the event. To think that it was otherwise means to deny that severe weather ever existed prior to the advent of technology to detect such things as tornadoes and hurricanes. In fact, we could extent the illogic and draw the correllation that satellites cause extreme weather since we lack hard evidence of such weather before we were able to see them from overhead or by doppler radar.