Global Warming and Energy

Government malfeasance has left New York City gridlocked after Sandy.

"“All of us have been shocked by the force of mother nature,” said the president, who was expected to visit Atlantic City on Wednesday."

Only a fool or a liar would be shocked by a category 1 hurricane. Before the storm Obama declared all preparations had been made and that there had been close cooperation between federal, state and local officials. Yet they were completely unprepared.

Sandy set a couple records. 63 killed in US. 71 killed in Caribbean. 8.2 million households and businesses without power.

Battery Park City is a centrally planned, fascist owned property created by landfill.

People stranded in Manhattan. Storm flooded seven subway stations.

"With about 900,000 customers already without power in New York City and its neighborhood, officials at Consolidated Edison, New York City’s utility, have said it could be up to a week before full power restoration.

John Miksad, Consolidated Edison Senior Vice President, said though they had anticipated mass outages, but the storm surge was even higher.

Some power cuts, he noted, had been earlier initiated to lessen storm damage. Certain cuts were because of an explosion at a Con Ed substation.

He estimated it would take up to a week to restore power cut to the substation explosion. Fixing power lost to downed lines is going to take the longest, Miksad said."

Bloomberg shut down all 468 stations. More government failure.

Poorly designed and maintained government sewers flood beaches with pollution.

"Rainstorms often cause large amounts of pollution to flow to the beach, overwhelming aging and poorly designed sewage and stormwater systems."
"Beach closings and warnings due to pollution nearly doubled along New York and New Jersey coastlines, the report documents."

Government failure.

Foxnews reports that Bloomberg declared bridges into the city are for high-occupancy vehicles only. Schools closed for the whole week.

The benefits of price gouging.

Chris Matthews calls global warming sceptics pigs.

New York Times hits were up 54 percent yesterday over the three month average. Accuweather.com was up 58 percent over the last seven days.

Katrina had 125 MPH sustained winds and a 27 foot storm surge.

Walmart's success versus FEMA's failure in the aftermath of Katrina.

Global warming fraud admits the fraud.

"“This is a Sophie’s Choice: If we respond to the moral imperative to raise public awareness and alarm about climate, we have to be deceptive.
If we are committed to truth and scientific accuracy, we have to talk in hedged, caveat-filled, probabilistic language that is utterly ineffectual in reaching and activating a tuned-out public.” -David Roberts, Grist"

I love it when people are accidentally, publicly honest.