Is Climate Change Turning New York Into a Hurricane Hotspot?

Slate: New York isn't known for its hurricanes. At least, it never has been before. But after Irene in 2011 and Sandy in 2012, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he joked to President Obama that "we have a 100-year flood every two years now.' Is it possible that climate change has somehow turned the Big Apple--and the northeast in general--into a hurricane hotspot? Possible, perhaps. But the atmospheric scientists I've talked to say it would be misguided to conclude based on those two storms that the northeast......

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