Never let a crisis go to waste.
The Associated Press reports,
Some environmentalists say New Jersey should consider not rebuilding everything lost to Superstorm Sandy.
U.S. Geological Survey scientist Jeffress Willliams says that rising sea levels and changing weather patterns make it likely that the coast will be hit by more frequent destructive storms…
But according to the Star-Ledger,
… “The Great September Gale” of 1821, one of more than 50 extreme tropical storms or hurricanes either to graze or hit the Garden State in the past 270 years, according to the American Meteorological Society. But like Sandy, the 1821 hurricane was a rare event, widely considered by weather historians to be the last intense hurricane to make landfall in the Garden State in 350 years, and only the second in 700 years, according to the geological record…
So how does one storm since 1821 constitute evidence of “changing weather patterns make it likely that the coast will be hit by more frequent destructive storms”?