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
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.
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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.
“If you can’t measure a risk, you can’t manage it,” Bloomberg added…
You can’t measure AGW. So, per Nanny Bloomberg, AGW cannot be managed. Therefore, spending money on AGW is money completely wasted.
AGW is arguably the greatest threat facing these cities, because it has relatively nothing to do with climate related disasters and chews up a lot of resources..
Since NY is built near sea level in a region notorious for hurricanes since the 1600s, can some NY local tell me if Bloomberg was involved in the real estate development which narrowed the Hudson River near its mouth by some 700 feet? If Bloomberg was a party, active or consensual, to such folly, then I think we have an important subject for investigation right there.
Roger Knights says:
In a bit of pro-active CYA, he or TPTB commissioned the following 2011 study, which frowns on preventative measures, because they provide “a false sense of security” (because they can’t protect against the worstest case) and thus amount to “disaster by design.” Instead, low-lying New York should pick up and move, reverting their spaces back to parkland. Dig it:
By that logic, we shouldn’t require cars to have seatbelts, buildings to have fire extinguishers or fire escapes, etc., etc.—Roger Knights
”Abound” is a giveaway that the authors’ hearts are imbued with warmist alrmism. This report’s recommendations (mostly “move” & “mitigate CO2” (implicit)) are largely based on accepting warmist projections of a 1-meter sea level rise by 2100. Further, based on nature of the the paragraph that sneeringly rejected “Regional Mega-Engineering,” I suspect that this report’s recommendations reflect current environmentalism’s knee-jerk rejection of man’s large-scale defiance of nature in the form of levees, surge barriers, etc.—i.e., a belief that such a stance is never justified and amounts to an affront to Gaia. The Dutch have told “mother nature” where to get off, and we should too, in this instance. (“This I know—Mother Nature is a maniac.”—Laurence Janifer, epigraph to You Sane Men.)—Roger Knights
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-09/billions-on-flood-barriers-now-might-save-new-york-city-l.html#comment-706225669
“Here, in austere times, the question is money, political will and a general skepticism in some quarters, including the office of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, that big engineering solutions are the answer.”
Roger Knights says:
I wouldn’t be surprised if Bloomberg had turned thumb’s down on the surge-barrier idea in years past and therefore that his endorsement of Obama and his citing of global warming as the cause of Sandy was a preemptive attempt to deflect blame for his inaction. His endorsement of climate-change alarmism would be a perfect fit with his greenie “skepticism . . . that big engineering solutions are the answer.”
Bloomberg’s obsession with soft drinks is evidence of pathological control freakery a la mode.
It’s also symptomatic of the increasing determination of government in this country to control every detail of our lives, and AGW, so long as they can maintain the fiction, gives them a perfect excuse to do it.
I’m reminded of a story that circulated in my office a while back. It goes like this:
“The Department of Personal Conduct has determined that improper tying of shoelaces is a safety hazard, therefore we must regulate that. Failing to tie shoelaces properly in accordance with regulations shall be a violaion punishable by a $5,000 fine per shoe per occurrence. Since this is an administrative and not a judicial proceeding, the Fifth Amendment shall not apply and the offender shall not be entitled to “due process,” and since the official assessing the fine is a civil servant he/she shall have no liability for his/her actions.”
C40 and Agenda 21 should be outlawed, and municipalities should be barred from participatuing in C40 or implementing Agenda 21. These are flagrantly anti-American and totalitarian and violate every principle of a free society.
Do they really want to find out how lousy US cities are prepared for natural disasters? Someone might get the idea that their administrations spend a lot of time hand waving about non-issues like big soft drinks while leaving their populations vulnerable.
This side of the Pond it’s called emergency planning, and every unitary authority and County Council has an office. I guess that sticking “Climate” in there somewhere attracts more taxpayer’s money and catastropharians looking for a new gravy-train to what is traditionally a quiet backwater staffed by retired armed services officers.
Stephen Rasey:
The thought of running the Marathon though Statin Island can only be seen through closed eyes.
Your point of forgetting the Irene experience is well taken. So perhaps the misspelling of “Staten Island” is deliberate, as statins are notorious for affecting one’s memory. I’m afraid I have personal and first hand experience about that….
As a lifelong resident in the State of Florida, in 55 years we have never been hit by a hurricane. In 2004 we took some pretty severe damage from Francis and Jean`s tropical storm strength winds (40-45mph) sustained over a 16 hour or so period with rain saturated ground. This mostly resulted in toppled trees tearing down power lines, and some residential home damage from uprooted trees. I called it the “great thinning”, of trees that is. Also as someone who knows, I do storm damage tree service, the worst storm I was involved with was Andrew by far, then Ivan.
Just out of curiosity, what kind of moronic follower does one have to be to consider al-Gore or Bubba to be a leader? Really, just wondering. I’m glad I’m past the juvenile stage where I thought some pop-culture idiot had the answers I was looking for.
Wow – what kind of tired posting does one need to be doing to type “al-Gore” when the brain is saying “bloomberg”… ? lol
This news story might explain it:
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Reinsurer Munich Re said Tuesday its first-quarter net profit rose 25 percent as the company saw modest outlays for natural disasters and raised its prices for catastrophe coverage.
Munich Re is, of course, a major investor in the Crimate scam. Through careful use of media and research, they’ve managed to raise everyone’s expectation of disasters while experiencing fewer disasters overall.
Presumably Bloomberg is looking for a new way to exploit this end of the scam, by creating quantified false expectations in specific cities. With quantified lies in official documents, a reinsurer won’t have to create its own lies.
Oops, just to be clear, the first paragraph was the news story and the rest was my rant.
A classic statement from obsessive micro-managing megalomania style of management that believes a ‘real’ manager can manage anything and the less they know about what they are managing, the better.
Which happens to be the style of management that various workplace studies (e.g.,Harvard Business Review) identify as the worst managers for productivity, employee security, employee turnover and workplace liability claims. These types of managers move from problem to problem issuing discipline punishments, reprimands and blaming everyone and everything but their own inadequacies.
A simple explanation is that the ‘big gulp’ micromanager is a case of the ‘Peter Principle’ in action; especially as the character involved continually purchases his positions and left his original ‘Peter Principle’ plateau far behind as he bought his way into new incompetency plateaus.
Bloomberg’s statement above is classic; blame is implied, but decidedly not his fault. Next, if they can measure the risk (an administrative burden type task), the blame will be implied as somebody else’s fault and another expensive administrative tracking demand made. Bloomberg is not a “The buck stops here” manager.
“If you can’t measure a risk, you can’t manage it,” Bloomberg added.
Similarly: If you can’t properly define a problem you can’t solve it.
What is the batting average of Climastrologists who have attempted to measure this risk? “0”
What is the batting average of liberals who have attempted to solve our country’s problems? “0”
Without a doubt, C.R.A.P. is the proper acronym.
They are not giving up and neither is the NYT: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/03/on-unburnable-carbon-and-the-specter-of-a-carbon-bubble/?src=recg
kim2ooo says:
May 6, 2013 at 6:18 pm
Why didn’t they assess the risk – BEFORE Sandy… They knew Sandy was overdo?
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Because Sandy and “climate change” gives politicians an “out” for building in flood zones and failing to maintain infrastructure.
If you build a house on the beach you have built a temporary structure. If you build a house on a river, you have built a temporary structure. It is a nonsense to call it a “natural disaster” when these structures wash away. The better term for water-front and low-lying property is “a man-made disaster waiting to happen”.
There was a time in the past when people had common sense. Farmers built their houses on the hill and farmed the river bottom. Every year the river flooded and fertilized the fields. Now we build houses on the river bottoms, put dikes along the rivers, buy expensive inorganic fertilizers, and are surprised when eventually the dikes fail and the houses wash away.
Flooding, storm surge, this is natural. Trying to prevent it is artificial. What is criminal is expecting tax-payers to pick up the dime for these disasters after the fact. The disasters are not preventable, but the damage is. More than 100 years ago after Galveston was flooded the citizens had the good sense to raise the city 16 feet before rebuilding. New Orleans they simply rebuilt, again below sea-level. Another disaster waiting to happen with billions in losses.
“Bloomberg, for his part, praised Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who had appeared on stage a few minutes before to announce that she and her husband plan to hold a CGI meeting in Brazil this fall to focus on development in Latin America.”
We have millions of people out of work here in the USA and Bill Clinton is focusing on development in other countries? … Yeah, he’s got his priorities right.
Too late now – the risks should have been assessed before building in flood prone areas. Now all they can assess is the cost after disaster hits.
Bloomberg added, warning that a damaging storm like Sandy could happen again
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Get a grip. A storm like Sandy will happen again. and again, and again, and again…
Question to Bloomberg: What year was it that damaging storms first started to not happen? And what happened to first make them stop?
Porky & Wacky
Fleecing people without them being aware of it, let alone consenting is an art form climatists like those two clowns have down to a science.
Kudos for bringing the engineering aspect into this; ignore their recommendations at your own peril, Bloomberg.
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There’s nothing wrong with risk assessment.
Whether the assessments are accurate or not will depend on what theories, what accepted truths they base their calculations on and whether they prove to be accurate or not.
Oh the Bubba bashing! When I get some time I’ll be back, I’ll put something on ya.
The Congressional Budget Office reported budget surpluses of $69 billion in 1998, $126 billion in 1999, and $236 billion in 2000, during the last three years of Bubba Clinton’s presidency.
I have to be careful talking about uncle Bubba though. One time down in Texas I said that “it sure was bad that Clinton raised taxes.” They proceeded to beat me to a pulp! I said, “watt-n-ell’ did you do that for??? All I said was that I regretted Clinton raising taxes.” Them, “Ohhh, we’re sorry… we thought you said Clinton was from Texas!” ;-( be back
What difference does it make to assess the risks if you never do anything about them. See flooding of the subway system and needing flood doors installed.
Heavy rains overwhelm the subway system, disrupting the morning commute for millions. Sound familiar?
The paralysis of the subway system this morning has happened before. On Aug. 26, 1999, and Sept. 8, 2004, to be specific. ….
“We are very much tied to mass transit, which is a system that is obviously vulnerable to natural events,” Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said this morning. With “very heavy rain,” the drainage system gets inundated. “You can only design it to take away so much,” he said.
Bloomy, you failed and we paid.
“If you can’t measure a risk, you can’t manage it,” Bloomberg added
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Bloomberg wants to “manage” everything we do, including every breath we are allowed to take, and climate change gives him the excuse to do just that.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences.” — C.S. Lewis
Repeat after me (while you click the heels of your glass slippers together):
“and congress had nothing to do with it”
“and congress had nothing to do with it”
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Check who was ‘in power’ 1995 onward into and beyond 2000:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_divisions_of_United_States_Congresses
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“budget surpluses… during the last three years of Bubba Clinton’s presidency”
No doubt due to the repatriation of Corp foreign profits (e.g. AAPL $1XXB currently) with a tax holiday (cut). Taxes were paid first where-ever they were made, then the IRS gets a second dip.
Thus, the money stays where it is made.
Yeah, ok, points taken. I never was a fan of Bill Clinton. We always wished he had been ‘raised in Texas’. Heh, my mother told him straight to his face that he wouldn’t get anywhere in politics way back when he first ran for governor. He didn’t do much for Arkansas, outside of the Walton’s.
But honestly, it kind of scares me who the Republicans will nominate next. I will definitely look to see if they have a Romneyised past. See…
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2012/08/mitt-romney-lied-to-husband-of-woman-he.html?m=1
I am glad Mitt didn’t win. Not happy with Obumble but look what we have to work with. I do know something Pappa Bush did to cover up something really bad in his son’s past too. The evidence of that scandal was swept out.
After Bubba Clinton was gone the Bush crime family Republicans had a majority in Congress and Senate. IT WAS Spending run amuck! Still is.
Under para 3: “Perhaps the sole effective solution is a fundamental change in landuse. It implies to move, when and wherever possible, the infrastructures and other assets to higher ground. They would be moved not only vertically, but also laterally.” This I must see, the Empire State Building marching north up to beyond Harlem. As far as Albany, perhaps? Will that be high enough above sea level (even when all the Climate Hot Air Talk (CHAT) melts the Antarctic, and we can grow green (green, of course!) peas at the south pole?)