N.Y.'s Cuomo links storm, climate change

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But Mayor Bloomberg’s priority seems to be ensuring that the NYC Marathon is on schedule this Sunday. Meanwhile, downtown Manhattan is still without power and residents are pulling bodies out of the water in Staten Island with no help from the city.
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It could be worse. Fast food chains could be jacking up soda sizes. :eek:

At least Cuomo is good for comic relief.
 
The idea that global warming causes worse hurricanes is false.Warm air holds more moisture. Bodies of water cool using convection. If the air is warmer, the seas can evaporate more water into it, allowing them to cool better. Cooler oceans=less severe hurricanes.
 
If they want a scapegoat, Cuomo and Bloomberg might want to look at their pushing through the anti-God gay marriage thing before looking at climate change. After they got it through, first Irene and now Sandy stopped by to say hello.
God bless you.
 
I think nobody will get it until the coastline stays underwater for good in florida and new york and many hypocrites there will be…
 
Global warming or not, coastal cities should be prepared for worst-case scenarios.
A lot of the damage (in $$ terms) is due to NYC’s long-term program encourage riverside development, “gentrifying” former industrial & warehouse districts into luxury apartments. I wonder how many other cities have followed this pattern.

Certainly gov’t should provide emergency services (goes w/o saying) but not one penny for rebuilding.
 
didymus said:
Certainly gov’t should provide emergency services (goes w/o saying) but not one penny for rebuilding.
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My FIL owns a condo at Nag’s Head. They have to make do with insurance and foot the bill for the difference. These folks make money off the sea. The responsible ones know they need to pay themselves out of such disasters.
 
Bill_Martin said:
The idea that global warming causes worse hurricanes is false.Warm air holds more moisture. Bodies of water cool using convection. If the air is warmer, the seas can evaporate more water into it, allowing them to cool better. Cooler oceans=less severe hurricanes.
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Well that’s exactly what hurricanes do they take heat energy and turn it into kinetic energy and make the place cooler in the process (we live in a hurricane area and it is an interesting phenomenon, if one’s house is still standing). So the more heat energy, the more the kinetic energy.

There are other factors involved in hurricanes, but heat is a necessary (tho not sufficient) cause.

And you are right about warm water/weather and increased evaporation. Water vapor is a powerful greenhouse gas, but it is a “feedback,” not a “forcing” like CO2, bec WV molecules only stay in the atmosphere up to a few days, while CO2 molecules can last a lot longer – 100s, even 1000s of years. So the initial CO2 we release into the atmosphere causes increased warmth, which causes increased WV and boots up the warming a lot more than if there were no WV.
 
I believe that hurricane Sandy and the break down of public transportation in parts of New York offers the city an opportunity. Telecommuting/ working at home has never been more possible than before. It’s an idea that should be promoted more frequently. Doing so would cut down on street congestion, and reduce the cities carbon foot print.

“Fight The Crisis! Telecommute!”

blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/10/30/fight-the-crisis-telecommute/

From the article:
…The simplest and best civil defense measure we can take to reduce the impact of such shutdowns: wherever possible, metro area employers should gear up to make it easier for employees to do their jobs from home. Many of course already have done so, and New York will benefit hugely this week from the ability of so many people to work efficiently without coming into the office. Even at Via Meadia, our contributing writers are working online this week from their homes in Brooklyn, Baltimore, and Washington DC, and communicating through instant messaging software and Skype. The show will go on even if none of us can get out on the road.
The shift is happening naturally, but with some leadership from government, more companies could integrate telecommuting into their civil defense and disaster planning. In an emergency, many fewer workers would need to commute, dramatically reducing the strain on the transport system—and also reducing the economic impact of the disaster.
What makes sense in emergencies can also help in normal times. Federal, state and local governments in our part of the world are always looking for something to do. Here’s an answer: Something like half of all jobs in the New York area can in fact be phoned in. There is no physical reason why people have to drag themselves on hour long commutes across the city five days a week. Some jobs require one or two days a week in the workplace, some more—and some less.
Making work flexible and liberating more people from the ritual of the daily commute makes good environmental, human and financial sense. It is also a vital part of civil defense in a dangerous time.
The huge and well organized infrastructure lobby will hate this idea and try to smother it, but the advantages to firms, to employees and to cities and states are so immense that ultimately, we think the logic will have to prevail. In the meantime, Mayor Bloomberg, promoting telecommuting and the development of emergency stay at home work plans in the name of civil defense is something you can do that helps the city and costs almost zilch.
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