New Yorkers Learn the Troubles Posed by Sea Level Rise Flow Far Beyond Manhattan

NY Times ^ | November 19, 2010 | NATHANIAL GRONEWOLD

[neverdem]

By NATHANIAL GRONEWOLD of ClimateWire NEW YORK -- New York state is beginning to take the threat of sea level rise attributed to climate change seriously as a new government prepares to settle in next year.

Starting Monday, state officials in Albany will gather with members of the public to discuss a recently released 93-page report that recommends major changes to development planning and conservation along coastlines from the tip of Long Island all way up the Hudson River Valley.

Any reforms to come from the process, starting next week, would affect about 62 percent of New York state's population, the proportion estimated to reside now in areas that could be hard hit as rising land and ocean temperatures raise average sea levels around the globe.

"We've had an enormous variety of partners involved in this project," said Kristen Marcell, special projects coordinator at the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. "We do have to take leadership from the new government, but I think there's a lot of support in the state agencies for these recommendations and making sure that we're heading in the right direction."

Among other changes, report authors say some rural infrastructure should be relocated away from coastlines, while new and existing buildings in the densely packed New York City metropolitan region should be reconfigured to allow for periodic flooding and sea intrusion. Planners also need to quickly come up with solutions to guard underground infrastructure, especially the flood-prone New York City subway and underground utility cables and pipes.

Those and other recommendations put forth to the governor and state Legislature are the work of the New York State Sea Level Rise Task Force, a body established by the Legislature in 2007 and charged with assessing the overall threat climate change poses to New York...

[Hildy]

oy vay. WHO WRITES THESE REPORTS? Kiss another 500 billion goodbye.

[vbmoneyspender]

I’m guessing the article never discusses whether sea levels have actually risen in the past decade or two?

[Soothesayer]

They read at the 6th grade level, they do maths at the 4th, and they just KNOW the seas will flood Manhattan.

[purplelobster]

It’s as if this article were written in 2007 when the Al Gore Global Warming terror was in full bloom. Now that the theory is fully discredited this ridiculous waste of money on drafting plans to put New York City on stilts just reads like a comical short story. Maybe we have a whole generation that will irrationally cling to the global warming hokum for their whole lives.

[BIGLOOK]

Land grab.....

[TigersEye]

Complete waste of money..

Claim That Sea Level Is Rising Is a Total Fraud

[tubebender]

and here is the "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you"...

Any reforms to come from the process, starting next week, would affect about 62 percent of New York state's population, the proportion estimated to reside now in areas that could be hard hit as rising land and ocean temperatures raise average sea levels around the globe.

[bronxville]

Bingo!

[squidly]

Don’t these people know that Al Gore just bought a beach house?

[JimmyMc]

“Kiss another 500 billion goodbye.”
New Yorkers will not pay for this.
The federal government will declare NY too big to let fail.
Besides, how many decades will pass before a project like this is completed?

[az_gila]

“New York State Sea Level Rise Task Force”

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The title of the task force sort of makes an assumption, doesn't it?

[wheresmyusa]

FReepMail me to be put on or off this Ping List!

"The draft report to be discussed over the coming months "is an important first step in developing a statewide framework to address the risks posed by sea level rise and coastal storms," said Adam Freed, who serves as New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's deputy sustainability director."

Link to the draft report:

http://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/administration_pdf/slrtdrpt.pdf

Page 39 of draft report:
"Non-structural solutions can reduce or eliminate the long-term threat of flooding at a much lower long- term cost with fewer impacts to natural systems. These alternatives rely on planning strategies such as land acquisition, buffer zones, conservation of natural flood protection systems, building elevation, building codes and other local regulations."

[wheresmyusa]

Sorry, here’s the clickable link:

http://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/administration_pdf/slrtdrpt.pdf

[Dapper 26]

I think the report that 1 in 5 Americans is mentally is a gross underestimation!

[convertedtoreason]

New Yorkers are IDIOT!

The man who promised that “OCEANS WILL RISE” is the One currently seating in the White House.

Republicans and Independents alike have already agreed on the solution on the “Rising Ocean”/Sea Level Rise problem:

REMOVE THE CHIEF OBAMAO FROM OFFICE IN 2012!

And that’s the best plan.

[neverdem]

Bishop pulls ahead as absentee count continues (Dem hold)

Senate update: Dems say new machines found in Buffalo (update)

Buerkle lead appears insurmountable (NY House race about to tip)

FReepmail me if you want on or off my New York ping list.

[metmom]

yippee....

[o-n-money]

The man who promised that “OCEANS WILL RISE” is the One currently seating in the White House.
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The main Chicken Little bought a beach home in California. Al Gore.

[o-n-money]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGOBm2J4tn0

Carlin got this one right.