Posted on 04/13/2018 6:00:46 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A report to be released Friday by the University of Massachusetts points to the challenges the city and the region face in funding solutions to combat climate change, with local neighborhood projects expected to amount to $2.4 billion.
The report recommends a layered approach of federal, state, city, and private financing strategies, including:
■ A statewide carbon tax and an increase to the state gas tax that could support a climate resilience fund.
■ The possibility of a Boston climate resilience fee based on water and sewer bills, which could fund city general obligation bonds.
■ The creation of climate-focused District Resilience Improvement entities, modeled after Business Improvement Districts, which would capture revenue from those who would most benefit from resiliency actions.
■ The creation of a Climate Resilience Finance Implementation Working Group for the metro Boston region, to advance climate adaptation measures.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...
As time goes on it seems that the whole problem of Global Warming is the lack of cash in Chicken Littles pockets.
A new liberal slush fund.
The latest excuse for new, higher taxes. We gotta fight climate change!
Liberalism never runs out of excuses for bigger, more intrusive and more expensive government.
“What does Global Warming have to do with Water and Sewer maintenance?”
I’ve notice an effort at the state level in MN surrounding ‘climate resiliency’ to get local water and wastewater utilities thinking about preparedness for impacts related to extreme climate events. Believe me, I live in MN and we see our share of extreme weather. I’ve lived here all my life, so this is NOTHING NEW!
In my humble opinion, this effort is nothing more than bureaucrats getting together to feel like they are doing something important—virtue signaling. The measures that are recommended to the local utilities is nothing more than should have already been considered as a matter of good common sense for disaster/emergency response planning.
This map is perfectly tracking the hot air from New Haven, Hartford, and Springfield “sanctuary city” politicians.
“opinion resilience”
Good one! I like that. It’s sorely needed, isn’t it?
I'm certain with enough grant money, UofM should be able to find any number of proposed solutions.
“Ok students for your midterm report, write a fake news story using keywords “Climate” and “Change!”.
Thanks to Eddie 01 for the above~!
“Ok students for your midterm report, write a fake news story using keywords “Climate” and “Change!”.
Thanks to Eddie 01 for the above~!
‘RESILIENCE. I expect this to rapidly take off and maybe begin to replace “sustainable.”’
Yep, the climate cult is rebranding itself. The new mantra is RESILIENCE. The Walking Dread will comply like good little soldiers. Behold the glorious new bureaucracies just in this one little doctrinal statement!
It looked like I was set to have a bumper crop of tomatoes with all the flowers.
Most never matured beyond green because it never got warm enough.
The previous year a hot summer gave me a bumper crop of melons. Last year only two small melons matured.
So far it's been a cold, wet spring.
Aren’t there lots of snakes and bugs where you are? I’m originally from Seattle (YES...it’s been ruined by the lefties, and Oregon too). But, I just cannot abide snakes and bad bugs....we’re looking at Idaho.
I am reminded of when oil was found on the north slope of Alaska. The environmentalists threw a hissy fit and protested until it was decided to ban oil exploration there, around the 1975.
I said that all it would take is another oil embargo to get the drilling going, since we had just come off the first embargo.
Within five years Alaska was alive with oil exploration and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline was built and being pumped south.
Eventually the gas areas of of the East will be drilled like it or not.
LOL! you forgot the 5 Colleges near Amherst !
Chicken Little
First, we must ask the question....... is the climate change destruction of Massachuttes a bad thing?
Who IS that guy?
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And yet the first four bullets say nothing about how to fix global warming’.
Bugs and snakes. Yep.
In fact, I describe the area this way: It’s the garden of Eden, but with more chiggers.
The bugs ARE an issue. One of the locals once said to me, “I went to Seattle once, I was a pike place and went to the park next door. I couldn’t believe it. People were just laying in the grass.”
I told him, “yeah. That’s because there are no bugs in the grass there.”
And one day I was under the hood of my 4x4 truck, with my head just abouve the strut mount, and something moved under my chin. It was a huge snake, six inches from my head. I jumped back. It was just a cow snake. Think of it as a five foot long garden snake. Harmless, but big.
But I’ve discovered permathrin. It’s an insecticide you spray on your clothing that lasts for about 20 washings and is dirt cheap. When I work in the grass/woods, I put bug repellent on my exposed skin, and wear permathrin treated clothing. Any bug that touches the clothing dies, and the repellent keeps them off my skin.
It’s all just a matter of getting used to the particular issues where you live. Idaho is awesome, though winters can be brutal. Same with Montana.
Humans cause climate change. Ban humans from Taxachusetts.
solutions to combat climate change
Sure, go ahead. Piss Mother Nature off!
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