Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/20/2010 10:21:47 PM PST by 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...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
These people thrive in crises. They can't just live happily because then they become unnecessary. So they invent endless problems out of whole cloth and then heroically fight them. In the end the threat doesn't materialize and they reward each other for the job well done. For details see Lisa and her rock that keeps tigers away.
But if we want to get technical, it's doable too. 70% of Earth surface is water, and the mean radius of the planet is 6,371.0 km. A partial hollow sphere with the inner radius 6371 km and the outer radius 6371.001 km (for water rise of about 3.3', or 1 meter) and 70% coverage has volume of:
4/3 * π * (6371.0013 - 6371.0003) * 70%
That gives the answer: 377 thousand cubic kilometers, or a hundred million billion gallons, or 29 times larger than the volume of Lake Superior.
Now, let's calculate - just for fun - how much energy is needed to melt that much ice (assuming that the temperature was and remains at zero degrees Celsius.)
The heat of fusion for water is 333.55 kJ/kg, and we just calculated that we need 3.57×1017 liters of water. Let's ignore the difference in density here, it's small. The energy needed to melt that much ice is ...
3.57×1017 * 3.3355×105 = 1.19×1023 Joules.
To compare, this energy release is equivalent to about two million explosions of the Castle/Bravo, the largest thermonuclear device that was ever exploded by the USA.
Stupid libs who take the climate change scam seriously.
Ka-ching!
In order to justify the existence of their make-work jobs fabricated out of the whole-cloth of environmental catastrophism...
They needed Cuomo to get in before they pulled this 93 page report off the shelf.
Paladino would laugh them out of his office.
Sea level has been rising at a steady rate in New York since they’ve been taking measurements:
http://www.psmsl.org/data/obtaining/stations/12.php
Oh, goody! Now Bloomberg will have something else to worry about rather than deal with the garbage and graffiti creeping back into my neighborhood.
Oh it could melt.
And, in 100 years, IF - big “if” there! - current sea level increases continue at their current rate - it “might” raise sea levels by a whole 20 inches.
The entire report is meant to control and to scare the readers. NEVER in this article is the real number mentioned. Because the writers don’t want the real number mentioned.
Hey; I’m getting taxed for ocean front property here in VT already !
Rising sea levels would be a blessing as these primitive Leftist life forms would be forced to climb above the waters and above their ignorance in order to assimilate with the superior intellects inland.
But man caused global warming is an empirically proved hoax so the idiots on the coasts will continue to agitate and irritate.
Thanks for the ping!
BTW, not knowing how they take the measurement, is it possible that the land mass is sinking?
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
Oh, yeah!
I stand corrected he he he he.
Likewise I rectify my argument like this:
NEW YORKERS ARE LIARS! OBAMA SAID THE OCEAN ALREADY RECEDED UPON HIS ARRIVAL TO THE WHITE HOUSE!
NO? SO OBAMA LIED THEN?
But what we can be sure of is this: NEWYORKERS AND OBAMA LIED.
Many news stories these days are actually nonstories. They’re stories about the fulminations of a person’s — the storywriter’s — psychosis, not about actual events.
What sea level rise? Has it risen ANY? What are the data on that? If there were an actual rise, and if it had been measured, then there might be some grounds for such a story.
But there isn’t any sea level rise. Instead, it’s hypothetical. Since when do hypotheses constitute news? Being hypothetical, it exists only in the writer’s head. And because it isn’t real, that’s the basis for concluding that the writer is psychotic — removed from reality.
Someone should plot of graph of the population of New York versus the sea level rise. Of course you will see a trend. Then we demand people leave NYC and take down tall buildings to stop the sinking. Call it ‘Cap and Trade’. (yet I know it is built on bedrock...but don’t let science stand in front of a good story)
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