So they have spent $300 million for a project that will inevitably fail at its stated mission, while ruining what was previously a perfectly nice park. This is not really…
Tag: New York City
Evidence of Catastrophic Glacier Melt in… New York City?
TV weather-person cites Pleistocene glacial geology of NYC as evidence of catastrophic glacier melt.
New York Post Misses the Boat on Sea Level Rise
…they are unnecessarily alarming people by not looking at real world timelines of actual sea level rise such as The Battery tide gauge right there at the tip of Manhattan…
New York City Zero Emission Vehicle Fleet Legislation
As far as I can tell this legislation only provides street cred for politician target constituencies and does nothing but get in the way of the people who are trying…
Unraveling the Enigma: Canadian Wildfires, a Stroke of Misfortune
…many extreme weather events hinge on random factors, with climate change’s effects relatively small compared to the random variations inherent in our complex atmospheric system.
NYC Hates Its Middle-Class Homeowners
Further, if hundreds of NYC buildings were to suddenly depend on electric heat, I have no faith in the city grid to rise to that level of demand.
New York City’s Plan to Combat Extreme Weather
The biggest impediment to implementation is the enormous funding needed and I believe it is obvious that taking the money presently being thrown away on greenhouse gas emission reduction projects…
Disaster Hits the New York Metropolitan Area. We Need to Do Better.
There is no reason why so many people had to die last night from an event we knew was coming and which we could watch unfold with weather radar and…
History falsifies climate alarmist sea level claims
Seas have been rising and falling for thousands of years – without help from the EPA or IPCC Guest essay by Robert W. Endlich Sea levels are rising rapidly! Coastal…
Are the 'climate will affect sports stadiums' claims of U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse the dumbest ever?
An examination of the data suggests “quite possibly”. You can read the press release from the Senator’s office here. From CNS News video: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) warns sports stadiums…
This is like asking 'could hurricane Hazel strike again' ?
From Tufts University , and the department of industrial strength grant funded worry, comes this “could” question coached in caveats: Could Sandy happen again? Maybe, says Tufts geologist Due to…
Walmart helps verify sea level rise in NYC
From the “more proof Walmart is evil” department, comes this bit of serendipity. While looking for a marine deep cycle battery to serve as storage for a solar powered remote…
From the Scientific Urban Legend Department: 'AGW Sea Level Rise Made Sandy More Destructive'
Guest essay by Kip Hansen, St Thomas, USVI The Claim: Even if research shows that Hurricane Sandy was not “caused” by Global Warming, it is certain that sea level rise…
Central Park in USHCNv2.5 (October 2012) magically becomes cooler in July in the Dust Bowl years
By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM Remember this story long ago on New York’s Central Park multiple very different data sets to which Steve McIntyre responded here. McIntyre wrote then: …has the…
Quite possibly the dumbest example of 'Tabloid Climatology' ever from Climate Central's Andrew Freedman
Andrew Freedman writes in this Tabloid Climatology™ piece at Climate Central: When Hurricane Sandy struck New York City on October 29, 2012, the dark waters of Flushing Bay poured over…
With these two guys leading, what could possibly go wrong?
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…
Flu forecasts using weather, not climate
Flu outbreaks predicted with weather forecast techniques BOULDER—Scientists at Columbia University and the National Center for Atmospheric Research have adapted techniques used in modern weather prediction to generate local forecasts…
Did Global Warming Reduce the Impacts of Sandy?
Guest post by Chip Knappenberger (above graphic by Anthony) The press has been quick to jump on the idea that post-tropical cyclone Sandy (it was not a hurricane at landfall)…
Bone-Chilling: Last Christmas, the U.S. narrowly averted an energy disaster that would have decimated New York City and killed thousands
Put short, policymakers ignore the importance of the gas pipeline system at our extreme peril.