Two Year Anniversary of Sandy Making Landfall in the Northeast US

Two years after a unique and powerful storm ravaged the northeastern US coastline, many communities are still assessing the historic levels of damage, waiting on funding assistance, and rebuilding. And emotions are still running high.

Whether or not Governor Christie deserves blame for the pace of the storm clean-up, he most certainly deserves criticism for his ignorant stance on climate change and Sandy.

"‘Cause I don’t think there’s been any proof thus far that Sandy was caused by climate change."

Again, Governor, for the nine millionth time, causing Sandy is a red herring. The issue was and always will be the inarguable intensification of the storm due to our warming planet. Perhaps it'd be good for Christie to watch the Nova documentary from a couple years ago another time (or, more likely, and sadly, for the first time).

"There were parts of Manhattan being impacted 25 feet above sea level."

- Jeff Weber, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

"...as the climate warms, the sea levels will rise. It's already risen around a foot in the last hundred years in the New York area."

- Adam Sobel, Columbia University