What do you think about NYC Mayor Bloombergs task force & efforts to prepare his city for the effects of GCC?

Question

"First, we have to shrink our carbon footprint to slow climate change. Second, we have to adapt to the environmental changes that are already beginning to take place, For example, raise critical infrastructure, like back-up generators, to higher ground in areas prone to flooding. Changes in the way we maintain and operate our infrastructure can help secure our City."

http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/menuitem.c0935b9a57bb4ef3daf2f1c701c789a0/index.jsp?pageID=mayor_press_release&catID=1194&doc_name=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nyc.gov%2Fhtml%2Fom%2Fhtml%2F2008b%2Fpr308-08.html&cc=unused1978&rc=1194&ndi=1

Answer 1

Smart guy!

Answer 2

Imagine that.  A politician spending extra tax-payer money on a myth that's already proven wrong and only the slow witted still believe in.

Oh well... only in New York ...

Answer 3

I certainly hope that he is going to finance this 'exercise' with private donations and NOT taxpayer dollars!!!

Answer 4

Even the alarmist IPCC shows a sea level increase of only 1 mm per year. http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1...

At that rate, the oceans will rise by one inch in 25 years.  Al Gore's made up 20 feet will happen in about 6000 years.  A more reasonable estimate shows that sea levels are rising by .05 mm per year, in which case the 1 inch will be achieved in 500 years and 20 feet in 120,000 years.   http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ig...

I would say that it is a bit premature to start worrying about sea levels and global flooding.  In fact it is an irresponsible waste of tax payers money.

Answer 5

Another politician scamming tax money with the global warming lie!

What a shock.

Answer 6

A governor of a blue state will create more union hack jobs installing those generators and building infrastructure, all at taxpayer expense.

What a shocker!

Answer 7

No one ever said west coast democrats were any smarter than east coast ones. What I find amazing is even the average adherent of AGW is not dumb enough to buy into the flooding myth that Gore used to fuel the panic in his fantasy slide show. If every square foot of ice and snow on the face of the earth melted it would only raise the average sea level by about 6 inches.

Added comentary

If Co2 is such a problem then force the tropical zones to replant the forests they have cut down over the last 30 or so years. From what I can see the the rise in atmospheric Co2 matches with tropical deforestation not industrial growth. We could enhance on our own the reduction of Co2 by a very simple method I saw demonstrated the other evening on ABC news, it is called green roofs. They illustrated a mid town New York building that had one of those questionable weather stations on its roof that regularly in the summer reported 170 to 180 degrees. After they went to a green roof the weather station reported temperatures in the low 80s instead, a drop of 100 degrees in the temperature of the buildings roof. By the way this green roof program was started and is continued by those who deny AGW or GCC as being real!

http://www.epa.gov/hiri/strategies/green...

For JimZ the 250 foot rise in sea level 11,000 years ago at the end of the great ice age required the melting of an ice sheet approximately two miles thick extending down in the US to about Virginia and in Europe to about Holland. There was an extension of the Antarctic ice shelf also that extended well into southern Africa and South America. Millions of cubic miles of ice and snow we no longer have to melt. Six inches is if all the snow and ice on the whole earth melted completely to where there was not even frost on the ground anywhere.

Who would even notice 6 inches more at high tide anywhere in the world, the tide span here in Long Beach averages over 4 feet from high to low and some parts of the world the span is over a hundred feet. Anybody that tells you we are going to have disastrous flooding if the ice melts also has a bridge in New York for sale and ocean front property in Arizona.

Answer 8

He knows his idiot voters.

Answer 9

I think addressing both mitigation and preparing for some amount of inevitable change is a very smart combination of policies.  Good for NYC.

For the record, it's not only in NY and California.  Try most of the developed world.

Answer 10

I would agree with Waterboarder, its easy to spend tax dollars on useless drivel when there are such as yourself out there ready to believe anything that consists of doom and gloom.

Answer 11

Clearly if all the snow melted, it would raise the sea level to a point that would be a serious problem.  There is, however, no evidence, zilch, zero, nada, that that it is happening or likely will happen.  It  is all about fear mongering.  Fear mongering from politicians is no surprise to me, especially from ignorant politicians.

Answer 12

I think by the middle of this century winters in NYC will be unbearable just the like the last LIA, only this time the population will be unsupportable, Bloomberg is being spoon feed a bunch of lies about the direction climate change will take.

Answer 13

I think it is a good start. Most proposals for "action" place too much emphasis on mitigation and not enough on adaptation. We are already starting to see the environmental impacts of climate change, and even if we held CO2 to current levels (not going to happen), we would still be in for more than 0.5 degrees C of warming based on climate commitment studies. That is why we need a good balance of both mitigation and adaptation, and why NYC PCC is going in the right direction.