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
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?)