Rather than admitting to the public that they were ill-prepared for Hurricane Sandy and natural weather events are part of life on earth, some politicians want us to believe that climate change was the cause of the storm and that the government thus needs to control the climate by increasing the cost of energy, namely by taxing carbon. Of course, the east coast has been hit by many hurricanes during the recorded history of this country. There were many more hurricanes in the 1950s than in the post- 2000 era and climate change wasn't even an issue then. For example, between August 1954 and August 1955, the east coast saw three different storms make landfall--Carol, Hazel and Diane.
