Since the chain saws arrived two weeks ago, workers have moved quickly to get rid of more than 70 species of mature trees at the popular 46-acre park on the Lower East Side, including 419 oaks, 284 London planes, 89 honeylocusts and 81 cherry trees — along with eventually demolishing a running track, ballfields, lawns, picnic areas, an amphitheater and a composting center.
“What’s the point of paying a parks department that cuts down trees?” asked Karen Kapnick, one of a small group of protesters who watched in horror, peeking through a chain link fence next to Franklin Delano Roosevelt Drive as workers denuded the first dozen trees. “I’m just here because I care about the trees and the environment.”
By: Admin – Climate DepotDecember 23, 2021 1:27 PM
New York City cuts 1,000 trees to raise park 8-10 feet to address panic over 3mm sea level rise.
Total insanity. https://t.co/z4VgEdgCcN
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) December 22, 2021
In N.Y., battling climate change means killing 1,000 trees
NEW YORK — After years of planning by city officials, New Yorkers got a close-up glimpse of the trade-offs inherent in the fight against climate change when crews this month began cutting down the first of a thousand trees targeted for removal in John V. Lindsay East River Park.
Since the chain saws arrived two weeks ago, workers have moved quickly to get rid of more than 70 species of mature trees at the popular 46-acre park on the Lower East Side, including 419 oaks, 284 London planes, 89 honeylocusts and 81 cherry trees — along with eventually demolishing a running track, ballfields, lawns, picnic areas, an amphitheater and a composting center.
“What’s the point of paying a parks department that cuts down trees?” asked Karen Kapnick, one of a small group of protesters who watched in horror, peeking through a chain link fence next to Franklin Delano Roosevelt Drive as workers denuded the first dozen trees. “I’m just here because I care about the trees and the environment.”
City officials say the tree removal is just a necessary first step to creating a bigger and better park. More importantly, they say, the remade East River Park will be betterable to withstand storm surge even as the waters surrounding lower Manhattan rise in the coming years. Once all the work is finished — projectedin about five years — the new park will be raised 8 to 10 feet higher, with new recreational facilities and 1,800 replacement trees representing more than 50 species more suited to survive occasional saltwater floods.
The park overhaul, spurred by the destruction of Superstorm Sandy in lower Manhattan nearly a decade ago, is all part of a $1.45 billion flood protection project that backers say befits the nation’s largest city, a massive project that will include the construction of a 2.4-mile system of walls and gates along the East River.
“We’re the parks department, so we obviously are very fond of trees and plants,” said Sarah Neilson, chief of policy and long-range planning for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. “We also recognize that after Sandy we had to take out 250 trees that died just from that one intense saltwater inundation. They’re not species that were designed for a coastal environment.”
A way out OT
Swedish company DSruptive Subdermals is implanting microchips under the skin as a Covid-19 vaccination pass.
“I have a chip implant in my arm and I have programmed the chip so that I have my Covid passport on the chip.
I just swipe my phone on the chip and it opens it up.” said Hannes Sjoblad, managing director.
Dystopian nightmare of future common practice.
Hannes, QR code printed on your forehead might be less painful.
Sounds like the chips are easily hacked.
That’s way beyond lunacy. Mrs Neilson clearly belongs in an asylum.
Another reason why we should starve the beast, aka .gov. It always works like a hydraulic pump, sucking us dry to soak a few cabal cronies
Reminds me of the Joni Mitchell song with the refrain
“They paved paradise put up a parking lot”.
You really don’t know what you got til it’s gone.
Congratulations! WUWT was trolled by the climate alarmists at GreenWire. The park was slated for renovation, expansion, and flood resistance after “Hurricane” Sandy, which caused flooding and major damage to the park. It has little to do with “climate change” but the trolls at GreenWire are always trying to make everything about climate change and spun the story that way. NYC’s tactics are monumentally moronic, but that’s what you get from the incestuous project planners and subcontractors in a corrupt city government. They could have done the work in phases leaving much of the park open to use but they didn’t and residents are unhappy about it. GreenWire turned the anger at the project into blaming humans for climate change because they are seriously mentally ill.
My NYC has moved rapidly from sheer stupidity into insanity. Progressive government poisons everything..
NYC bans Nat Gas in new buildings.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/new-york-city-set-ban-natural-gas-new-buildings-2021-12-15/
The green revolutionaries have shot themselves in the foot. Forcing those buildings to be heated by electricity just puts even more load on the system that the renewable grid already is no where near able to bear.
If you can cut down billions of trees across the World to erect windmills to counter non-existent “Climate Change’, then cutting down a few thousand trees in a New York Park to counter virtually non-existent sea-level rise can begin to make some sense.
Someone who lives there needs to preserve this decision so that it cannot be memory holed.
Maybe the owner of the nearest building should install a plaque commemorating this waste so I’m a decade people can view it.
Put on it the names of the parks and city council types who voted yes
Is the sea level around NY particularly prone to rising? Has it risen so far?
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NYC seems to be the epicenter of delusional politicians and really awful public policy,
NYC is s stupid POS run be stupid pieces of shite from top to bottom and reasonable people are fleeing in droves. Those who can get out are getting out quick!
Pretty stupid – Trees are water pumps – getting rid of them will cause the water level to rise – A good way to create salt lakes.
If the tree-less waterfront land gets sold off to developers in a few years then you’ll know this was a scam
Insanity. It’s like they’re going out of their way to punish people.
Wouldn’t it be easier to just add a one-foot curb on top of the entrances to the subway? Sheesh
Hey they are now safe for 800 to 1,000 years!
More seriously this shows that so-called “adaptation” to alarmist climate change can be just as nutty as trying to cut fossil fuel use. Adaptation is not harmless.
New Yorkers voted for the fools running the city – or they didn’t vote. Either way, karma has a way of biting you on the bum. BTW, I wonder how much CO2 will be produced in “saving” this park.