NYC mayoral candidate says rainstorm & flooding occurred because people have 'screwed up our planet'

In New York City and elsewhere, there was massive flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Ida. One candidate to be the city’s next mayor has assigned blame, and it’ll get a big thumb’s up from Al Gore:

NYC Democratic mayoral candidate @ericadamsfornyc on NYC’s recent rainstorm: "Let’s be clear. We screwed up our planet and this is the byproduct of that screw up." pic.twitter.com/2gtp8BiBtf

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 6, 2021

They’re nothing if not totally predictable!

Lets be clear.. 100 yrs if ignoring vital infrastructure to NYC screwed up NYC.

— AV_Rando (@LukeTheDrifte19) September 6, 2021

A frightening amount of ignorance and misinformation from the guy who will likely run New York City. #Shameless #NewYorkflood https://t.co/bETGo7z7p3

— PePe' Pa'Palote' (@PPitolarga) September 6, 2021

This is how you hide your ineptness – blame it on climate change. https://t.co/nOLkBGdipm

— Avatans Kumar (@avatans) September 6, 2021

“And that’s why we need to print $3.5 trillion…”

— Make L.A Great Again 🇺🇸 – RECALLGAVIN2020.COM (@lalovestrump) September 6, 2021

Excuses for incompetencies

— 👑 (@dubbakoor) September 6, 2021

There’s never any shortage of excuses.