New York City declares a climate emergency

[rangerrebew]

New York City declares a climate emergency
It's first US city with over 1M residents to do so
By:

    Scottie Andrew and Saeed Ahmed, CNN

Posted: Jun 27, 2019 11:31 AM PDT

Updated: Jun 27, 2019 11:59 AM PDT

 

(CNN) - New York City officials declared a climate emergency in an effort to mobilize local and national responses to stall global warming.

It's the largest city in the U.S., with over 8.62 million inhabitants.

The New York City Council passed the legislation Wednesday, calling for an immediate response to the global climate crises. The bill referenced several reports on the state of global warming and its impact, imparting that extreme weather events brought about by rising temperatures demonstrates that the planet is "too hot to be a safe environment."

https://www.ktvz.com/weather/new-york-city-declares-a-climate-emergency/1089877816

[rangerrebew]

 

[Sanguine]

Well said.

[GtHawk]

Well if the city of New York's city council believes that reports on the state of global warming and its impact, imparting that extreme weather events brought about by rising temperatures demonstrates that the planet is "too hot to be a safe environment." I suggest they relocate their city and it's inhabitants to another planet, it would seem to be their sworn duty to do so to protect their citizens. Also just think of how much that would benefit the rest of America, nay, the Earth by removing such a huge contributor of noxious vapor and hot air.

[Free Vulcan]

NYC caught up in it's own self-importance again.

[Smokin Joe]

So buy a chunk of Canada and move 500 miles north or so.

As if the urban heat island effect isn't part of the problem.

[Gefn]

It’s been hotter than hades here. With the humidity, yuck.


I’d rather have hot with dry instead of humid.

Con Ed must be making a mint these days with everyone running air conditioning

[Gefn]

@GtHawk

Love the black lab avatar.

[Joe Wooten]

New York City declares a climate emergency
It's first US city with over 1M residents to do so
By:

    Scottie Andrew and Saeed Ahmed, CNN

Posted: Jun 27, 2019 11:31 AM PDT

Updated: Jun 27, 2019 11:59 AM PDT

 

(CNN) - New York City officials declared a climate emergency in an effort to mobilize local and national responses to stall global warming.

It's the largest city in the U.S., with over 8.62 million inhabitants.

The New York City Council passed the legislation Wednesday, calling for an immediate response to the global climate crises. The bill referenced several reports on the state of global warming and its impact, imparting that extreme weather events brought about by rising temperatures demonstrates that the planet is "too hot to be a safe environment."

https://www.ktvz.com/weather/new-york-city-declares-a-climate-emergency/1089877816

Prog-speak for "Give us all your money and do what we tell you to, serf!"

[GtHawk]

@GtHawk

Love the black lab avatar.

@Gefn

Thanks, I wanted to be patriotic for the fourth and it kind of looks like my Rocky when he was young.

[Elderberry]

    “New York City, as the largest city in the United States, can act as a global leader by both converting to an ecologically, socially, and economically regenerative economy at emergency speed, and by organizing a transition to renewable energy and climate emergency mobilization effort.”
    ~ New York City Council, in its resolution.

Resolution

Here’s the full resolution text which the councillors, all except one who abstained, voted in favour of:

Resolution declaring a climate emergency and calling for an immediate emergency mobilization to restore a safe climate.


Resolution 864, 2019, by Council Members Kallos, Constantinides, Lander, Reynoso, Levin, Espinal, Koslowitz, Powers, Chin, Rosenthal, Barron and Rivera

Resolution: https://climateemergencydeclaration.org/new-york-city-council-declares-a-climate-emergency/

[Elderberry]

Resolution contains "All Whereas's" except for this "Last Line":

  Resolved, The City Council declares a climate emergency and calls for an immediate emergency mobilization to restore a safe climate.”

[Gefn]

@Gefn

Thanks, I wanted to be patriotic for the fourth and it kind of looks like my Rocky when he was young.

@GtHawk I should change my avatar to the 4th too.

[catfish1957]

Shoot me, but if all these Global Climate Alarmist whackos are so scared of human impact on the planet, why don't they make like Lemmings, and........

[Joe Wooten]

Shoot me, but if all these Global Climate Alarmist whackos are so scared of human impact on the planet, why don't they make like Lemmings, and........

Because they want YOU to die, not them......

[Victoria33]

This appears to be the "Whereas" that describes most of what they plan.  Since it is an emergency, they should be done with this next week.

"Whereas, A sweeping transition to clean energy systems that centers on equity and justice in their solutions is vital to our future and must include the following goals: dramatically expand existing renewable power sources and deploy new production capacity with the goal of meeting 100% of national power demand through renewable sources; build a national, energy-efficient, “smart” grid; upgrade every residential and industrial building for state-of-the-art energy efficiency, comfort and safety; eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing, agricultural and other industries, including by investing in local-scale agriculture in communities across the country; repair and improve transportation and other infrastructure, and upgrade water infrastructure to ensure universal access to clean water; fund massive investment in the decrease of greenhouse gases; make “green” technology, industry, expertise, products and services a major export of the United States, with the aim of becoming the international leader in helping other countries become greenhouse gas neutral economies and bringing about a global transition from fossil fuels; and .."

[240B]

If the current Communist oligarchy that runs NYC these days remains in power, in less than 10 years gasoline and diesel fuel will be banned, along with the vehicles that run on it. If you live in NYC, it would be best to prepare for this inevitability.

[Elderberry]

This appears to be the "Whereas" that describes most of what they plan.  Since it is an emergency, they should be done with this next week.

"Whereas, A sweeping transition to clean energy systems that centers on equity and justice in their solutions is vital to our future and must include the following goals: dramatically expand existing renewable power sources and deploy new production capacity with the goal of meeting 100% of national power demand through renewable sources; build a national, energy-efficient, “smart” grid; upgrade every residential and industrial building for state-of-the-art energy efficiency, comfort and safety; eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing, agricultural and other industries, including by investing in local-scale agriculture in communities across the country; repair and improve transportation and other infrastructure, and upgrade water infrastructure to ensure universal access to clean water; fund massive investment in the decrease of greenhouse gases; make “green” technology, industry, expertise, products and services a major export of the United States, with the aim of becoming the international leader in helping other countries become greenhouse gas neutral economies and bringing about a global transition from fossil fuels; and .."

They are done already. They've made  their  "Declaration" of an emergency and "Called" for an immediate mobilization.  That's all they claimed they would do.

[Smokin Joe]

This appears to be the "Whereas" that describes most of what they plan.  Since it is an emergency, they should be done with this next week.

"Whereas, A sweeping transition to clean energy systems that centers on equity and justice in their solutions is vital to our future and must include the following goals: dramatically expand existing renewable power sources and deploy new production capacity with the goal of meeting 100% of national power demand through renewable sources; build a national, energy-efficient, “smart” grid; upgrade every residential and industrial building for state-of-the-art energy efficiency, comfort and safety; eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing, agricultural and other industries, including by investing in local-scale agriculture in communities across the country; repair and improve transportation and other infrastructure, and upgrade water infrastructure to ensure universal access to clean water; fund massive investment in the decrease of greenhouse gases; make “green” technology, industry, expertise, products and services a major export of the United States, with the aim of becoming the international leader in helping other countries become greenhouse gas neutral economies and bringing about a global transition from fossil fuels; and .."

THis is just another tilt at the midwest carbon exchange windmill (no pun intended).

They want to control (and to some extent already do control) the access to energy in the Northeast and profit handsomely by doing so. Keep in mind all the power plants, pipelines, and other energy transmission capabilities denied through New York State are fundamentally denied it by and for the self interests of New York City. Fracking was banned in the State allegedly to protect the Watersheds that feed water to the City. This left much of western New York State unnecessarily impoverished when it came to shale gas/oil development. Not permitting pipeline construction/upgrades costs every energy consumer in the Northeast, etc.

Essentially, this is a battle cry for the disruption not only of New York City's energy provisions, but the disruption of the distribution and consumption of all types of energy in the northeast US not deemed to be environmentally suitable by NYC (and likely controlled, economically and physically, ultimately by policies thereof, imposed on the rest of the State).

[Hoodat]

    “New York City, as the largest city in the United States, can act as a global leader by both converting to an ecologically, socially, and economically regenerative economy at emergency speed, and by organizing a transition to renewable energy and climate emergency mobilization effort.”
    ~ New York City Council, in its resolution.

Resolution

Here’s the full resolution text which the councillors, all except one who abstained, voted in favour of:

Resolution declaring a climate emergency and calling for an immediate emergency mobilization to restore a safe climate.


Resolution 864, 2019, by Council Members Kallos, Constantinides, Lander, Reynoso, Levin, Espinal, Koslowitz, Powers, Chin, Rosenthal, Barron and Rivera

Resolution: https://climateemergencydeclaration.org/new-york-city-council-declares-a-climate-emergency/

I don't have a problem with this.  NYC can do whatever the hell it wants provided that it stops at the city limit and that I am not forced to pay for it.

[sneakypete]

New York City declares a climate emergency
It's first US city with over 1M residents to do so
By:

     

The New York City Council passed the legislation Wednesday, calling for an immediate response to the global climate crises. The bill referenced several reports on the state of global warming and its impact, imparting that extreme weather events brought about by rising temperatures demonstrates that the planet is "too hot to be a safe environment."

 

@rangerrebew

Sounds good to me!

Everybody in favor of the denizens of NYC leaving the planet,raise your hands!

[Smokin Joe]

I don't have a problem with this.  NYC can do whatever the hell it wants provided that it stops at the city limit and that I am not forced to pay for it.

That's just it: It won't stop at the City Limits. Like much of Urban California, NYC will (and already has with Bloomberg pimping gun control) seek to impose its 'solutions' on everywhere else.

But geographically, New York forms a block between Oil producing America, the Natural Gas fields, and the rest of the Northeast.
If they will not permit the construction of infrastructure to reach the other Northeastern States, they control what energy gets there. They can effectively impose their policy on all of New England, by dominating what happens in Albany.

There is a lot of money to be made in restricting what types of energy are available there, especially with winter coming on.

The Russians invaded Georgia to control the pipelines there, to retain energy hegemony over Eastern Europe. New York could do the same to the rest of the Northeast.

[Axeslinger]

That's just it: It won't stop at the City Limits. Like much of Urban California, NYC will (and already has with Bloomberg pimping gun control) seek to impose its 'solutions' on everywhere else.

But geographically, New York forms a block between Oil producing America, the Natural Gas fields, and the rest of the Northeast.
If they will not permit the construction of infrastructure to reach the other Northeastern States, they control what energy gets there. They can effectively impose their policy on all of New England, by dominating what happens in Albany.

There is a lot of money to be made in restricting what types of energy are available there, especially with winter coming on.

The Russians invaded Georgia to control the pipelines there, to retain energy hegemony over Eastern Europe. New York could do the same to the rest of the Northeast.

@Smokin Joe
Obviously the solution then is that we must invade New York City...

[sneakypete]

That's just it: It won't stop at the City Limits. Like much of Urban California, NYC will (and already has with Bloomberg pimping gun control) seek to impose its 'solutions' on everywhere else.

 

@Smokin Joe

Well,you can't really blame them for that. Fascism only works if it has total control and the people have no alternatives other than to obey or be murdered by the state.

[Joe Wooten]

@Smokin Joe

Well,you can't really blame them for that. Fascism only works if it has total control and the people have no alternatives other than to obey or be murdered by the state.

It does not even work very well when they control one nation. Sooner or later they run out of money and have to take over someone else to loot to keep their scam going. After all Fascism/Nazism is just another variant of socialism which bankrupts a it touches.