From DNA Info:The state just released a long-anticipated report on how to combat rising sea levels — New York Harbor is expected to rise 2 to 5 inches within the next 20 years — but the city isn't on board.
Adam Freed, deputy director of the Mayor's Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability, is worried that the state's recommendations will restrict development in the city, which could hurt the region's economy.
The state Sea Level Rise Task Force wants to add extra regulatory hurdles for development projects in potential flood zones and encourage local governments to move critical infrastructure elsewhere.
Those proposals and others the state is recommending "have the potential to add substantial costs and time to development projects and infrastructure investments," Freed said in a Dec. 14 letter to the state Department of Environmental Conservation, which is spearheading the sea level plan.
"Implementing these measures without a thorough understanding of the cost and time implications or the scope of their reach is premature," Freed added.
Two weeks after receiving Freed's comments on the draft report, the state released a final version Dec. 31 that still includes the measures Freed opposed.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Environmental Conservation said other members of the Sea Level Rise Task Force thought the new regulations were important, so the state did not want to remove them.
The Sea Level Rise Task Force's report is just a recommendation, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo would have to take action to implement it.
Cuomo's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The report, which is several years in the making, covers New York State as a whole, but it also mentions New York City as one of the most at-risk areas for flooding.
The sea level in New York Harbor has risen over 15 inches in the past 150 years and is expected to rise another 2 to 5 inches within the next 20 years, according to the report.
More than 215,000 New York City residents live in an area that has a 1 percent chance of flooding each year, according to federal standards.
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"The sea level in New York Harbor has risen over 15 inches in the past 150 years and is expected to rise another 2 to 5 inches within the next 20 years, according to the report.
More than 215,000 New York City residents live in an area that has a 1 percent chance of flooding each year, according to federal standards."
Two totally disjointed facts. Rain and not ocean height is the cause of the flooding.
The oceans have been rising at the rate of 1 inch per decade since the last mini-ice age 300 years ago, which predates SUVs by a few. There is nothing that indicates the rate has changed.
We should be more concerned about global cooling. One degree down temperature is far more deadly then a one degree increase. And it appears we are beginning to enter another Dalton minimum solar period which caused the last mini-ice age.
Come on Crappy, its just not Bloomberg, but its everyone in NYC politics (yea, City Council front and center as well as all you aspiring wannabes that know whats going on but want a job at the taxpayer's dime) and the city preservation movement (gag) as well as the media (gag gag gag)
No one says a thing.
NYC the center of intellectual thinking my ass.
FEMA has already deemed large portions of the city flood prone. A cat 3 storm could down most of the Rockaways and LIC.
We are lucky that NY's harbor deflects storms - one that hit it squarely in 1820 flooded everything to Canal Street.
Most new development is in marginal areas: facing clattering elevated trains, flood plains, and brownfields.
Just like living in basements and illegal conversions are making the infrastructure of the city 3rd world.
Everyone knows it. No one is saying a thing. You have to go back to the time of Dickens to a similar era of public indiffernce.
Why?
he oceans have been rising at the rate of 1 inch per decade since the last mini-ice age 300 years ago, which predates SUVs by a few. There is nothing that indicates the rate has changed.
Only 300 years ago?
They should build swim lames and exclude boats from entering them.
Who knows, maybe organic tofu shops can deliver from North West Brooklyn to the Lower East Side via swim lane.
"Only 300 years ago?"
Yes. Just a guess, but you are probably thinking of the last major glaciation period about 10,000 years ago.
But the fact is that there have been several smaller periods of ice since then. It's one of the major errors in the global warming myth.
If we were to go through another "minor" ice period like we did during the late 1700s to early 1800s, it's likely hundreds of millions of people would die due to food shortages.
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