From banning supersize drinks to banning supersize storms?
Bill Clinton and Bloomberg unveil ‘climate risk’ project
NEW YORK—Former President Bill Clinton and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a new climate initiative Monday to help cities measure their risk for severe weather and natural disasters. The hope is to help curb the impact of deadly storms like Superstorm Sandy, which devastated parts of New York City last October.
The project will be run through C40, a coalition of major cities around the world that united to study the impact of climate change on their municipalities. The group, chaired by Bloomberg, merged two years ago with the Clinton Climate Initiative—an offshoot of Clinton’s philanthropic foundation.
Known as the C40 Risk Assessment Framework, the “climate risk” project, as Bloomberg referred to it, would develop a consistent set of measures by which cities could assess their risk of a natural disaster, including hurricanes and floods.
“Cities simply cannot afford to close their eyes and hope for the best,” Bloomberg said, as he and Clinton unveiled the project during a meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative in Manhattan.
“If you can’t measure a risk, you can’t manage it,” Bloomberg added, warning that a damaging storm like Sandy could happen again.
Read more here: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/bill-clinton-bloomberg-unveil-climate-risk-project-214502570.html
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Maybe they can investigate the “Great Hurricane of 1939” that dumped all over Providence RI and ravaged Long Island while they are at it. The climate hasn’t changed, only the idiots who think it has. Oh, and then there were the hurricanes in the 1960s that chopped up all the barrier islands off the Jersey coast too. Short memories and stupid people with an agenda that makes their buddies rich.
How stupid do you have to be to think you can control the weather? They’ve been watching too many James Bond movies.
Bloomberg and Clinton know a thing or two about Big Gulps. 🙂
Why didn’t they assess the risk – BEFORE Sandy… They knew Sandy was overdo?
What a circle jerk. These guys just can’t give up the gravy train.
The unanswered question is : which of these two goofballs ever set foot inside a science classroom? As for that probably illegal ban on supersize drinks, exactly why does Bloomberg think
people won’t just order two large drinks instead? Reminds me of the brainless move to reduce shower head spray volume – those who took showers simply took longer showers. We’re talking
new levels of political incompetence here.
“Former President Bill Clinton and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a new climate initiative Monday to help cities measure their risk for severe weather and natural disasters.”
Change that to:
“Former President Bill Clinton and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a new initiative Monday to help cities measure their risk for severe weather and natural disasters.”
and it almost sounds like a reasonable preparedness concept.
Well, except that using “Bill Clinton” and “Michael Bloomberg” in the same sentence with “reasonable” is probably not, uh, reasonable.
🙂
How about building flood gates, as Providence did in the 1960s?
Bloomberg: “Cities simply cannot afford to close their eyes and hope for the best,”
Which is EXACTLY what Boomberg and the City of New York did after dodging the bullet of Hurricane Irine. Irene was a “heaven sent” wind to wake up the city planners of NYC. Irene could have been stronger and hit during a 5 foot high tide. Instead, Irene was just a warning that the billionaire mayor seemed to pay little heed.
Bloomberg’s eyes were shut for 48 hours AFTER Sandy passed. The thought of running the Marathon though Statin Island can only be seen through closed eyes.
I always thought Bil Clinton was a bit of a Cnut
Bill just thought he was going to get to meet two NY chicks, “Sandy” and “Irene”….
The court threw out Little Gulp’s ban on big drinks.
http://grist.org/news/nyc-judge-throws-out-bloombergs-big-sugar-drink-ban/
“If you can’t measure a risk, you can’t manage it,” Bloomberg added, warning that a damaging storm like Sandy could happen again.
Anyone want to take a shot at what that means? I say that Bloomberg will follow the measurement with new regulations that will give him ever so much control over the Jersey shore and New York City up to 40th street.
Billionaire Mayor Bloomberg, proprietor of BusinessWeek, is also responsible for the BW cover about Sandy 11/1/12.
Mr. Mayor, such a storm surge has happened twice in the past 100 Years, was predicted decades ago to happen again, and SHOCK did. Whining for fed funds from a bankrupt government to your near bankrupt city will not change NYC weather basics that have little to do with climate change. NYC lives on the end of a natural storm surge funnel. Put that together with any anti clockwise storm, is trouble. Put it together with a hurricane like storm combining with a classic Noreaster front at peak high tide, and you get the mess you got.
Hopw could anyone behaving so stupid become so rich ? This person should have no influence over other peoples lifes. There are serious things going wrong in the US.
The more appropriate risk should be based on the dollar value of property and infrastructure built where flood insurance is required, or should be. Additionally, the negative effects of that building on the natural systems that maintain beaches.
In my home of Virginia Beach in the southern part of Sandbridge lies a federal wildlife refuge. Hence, there has never been building near this beach. Consequently, the beach looks exactly as it did when I moved here in 1982. The dunes migrate back and forth with the natural tidal changes. The areas lined by houses to the north require constant sand replenishment. The dunes are long gone. There was significant damage during Isabel and Irene.
Once upon a time, the areas which received the greatest damage from Sandy were swamps. I have a feeling that one day they will be again.
I really didn’t expect to see Topher’s project yield results so quickly.
@kim2000, There was an Army Corps of Engineers report a year earlier that documented the problems that NYC would have in a storm. The title is: 20110913_Final_Metro\ NY\ TDR.pdf You can go look for it on the net. Bloomberg totally ignored it. It warned of major flooding from storm surges and all the rest. The “\ ” is a blank space in the name. This is simply Bloomberg dodging responsibility for not acting on that. No more, no less.
Climate Risk Assessment Project! The acronym says it all with those two involved!!!!
Don’t know,..the rampaging Big Gulp pic just doesn’t work for me, give me King Kong or Gozilla any old day…
Transparently, a prelude to another tax grab.
C40 is an organization headed by Bloomberg which is affiliated with the UN’s “Agenda 21” program. C40 seeks to by-pass Congress and directly encourgages cities to implement the fraudulant anti-concept of “Sustainability” into the plans of those cities. An anti-concept is one that implies the exact opposite of what it, in reality, is. Sustainability is actually anti-growth, anti-industrialation and ultimately anti-life. Bloomberg has shown an ever growing appetite to forceably tell people how to live their lives. He and, by association, Bill Clinton are very dangerous to your health and to your life.
Is this a remake of Dumb and Dumber? C.R.A.P. Too Funny….!
You know you’ve reached the end times when salvation rests….
on a Big Gulp billionaire with a Napoleon complex….
and a Slick Willy Rhodes scholar with a Casanova complex….
who are going to apply the C40 Risk Assessment framework….
just another form of obese government molestation….
WTF !
Are Clinton (Bill) and Bloomberg (His Royal Majesty Ship) just zombie monsters ? Evidence is piling up not in their favor !
Likely, Bloomberg smelled a ‘cash bonanza’ and called butt-buddy Clinton to ‘share the load.’
Oh yeah ! Cash ! And container ship loads of it … the CIA cash bags to Karzai are pocket change measured against this.