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" Add Andrew Cuomo of New York to the list of east-coast governors who are willing to acknowledge reality when they wake up and discover that half the Grand Banks has decided to pay a visit inland. &amp;quot;There has been a series of extreme weather incidents. That is not a political statement, that is a factual statement ... Anyone who says there&amp;#039;s not a dramatic change in weather patterns, I think is denying reality,&amp;quot; Cuomo said. And, of course, there is nothing new about any of this. &amp;quot;Sea level rise and coastal flooding from storm surge are already affecting and will increasingly affect New York&amp;#039;s entire ocean and estuarine coastline from Montauk Point to the Battery and up the Hudson River to the federal dam at Troy,&amp;quot; the report stated. &amp;quot;The likelihood that powerful storms will hit New York State&amp;#039;s coastline is very high, as is the associated threat to human life and coastal infrastructure. This vulnerability will increase in area and magnitude over time.&amp;quot; Few recommendations of the little noticed report appear to have been enacted. (Ed. Note: Unpossible!) &amp;quot;We have a new reality when it comes to these weather patterns. We have an old infrastructure and we have old systems, and that is not a good combination. And that&amp;#039;s one of the lessons I&amp;#039;m going to take from this, personally.&amp;quot; Cuomo&amp;#039;s talking about maybe building levees around lower Manhattan so, plainly, he&amp;#039;d been thinking about this for a while before the storm hit. Maybe we should have discussed this climate-change business during one of the debates. Maybe this little japery down in Tampa wasn&amp;#039;t as funny as everybody thought it was. In his acceptance speech on Thursday, Romney said, &amp;quot;President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans (pause for mocking laughter) and heal the planet. MY promise is to help you and your family.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Pause for mocking laughter&amp;quot;? Idiots. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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