--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: "That, and we're (NY) surrounded by water. All coastal areas are going to have to build levees. "Adaptation" is the buzzword in the climate change world, along with "mitigation".
Predictable band-aid approach. 50% of the costs will come from excess profits through no-bid crony contracts. Just as Homeland Security has a "store" on its website, with lists of projects and grants to bid on, the Department of Climate Mitigation will have wide-open doors for businesses eager to cash in.
It would be so much cheaper, more socially productive, to develop a national alternate energy strategy (like the Apollo Alliance. )
BobW
>
> On Aug 9, 2007, at 2:00 PM, Carl Remick wrote:
>
> > This was a strange, disturbing event. I was
> amazed to see NYC's
> > rainstorm
> > top ABC's World News last night. For all its woes
> in recent
> > decades the NYC
> > subway has almost always avoided extreme flooding.
>
> Even weirder: there was a tornado in Brooklyn that
> did some serious
> damage.
>
> > Re climate change, I would have to assume that
> serious planning
> > must be
> > taking place to figure out how to protect NYC from
> inundation as
> > the sea
> > level rises. Could they do this by levees, or is
> that not
> > feasible? Isn't
> > NYC at particular risk of flood damage because so
> much of its
> > infrastructure
> > is deep underground?
>
> That, and we're surrounded by water. All coastal
> areas are going to
> have to build levees. "Adaptation" is the buzzword
> in the climate
> change world, along with "mitigation." Even if we
> were to stop
> emitting greenhouse gases tomorrow, temps would
> continue to rise for
> decades. And of course we're not going to do that.
>
> Doug
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