New York City Planning Commissioner, Amanda Burden
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2012-11-19/new-york-city-planning-commissioner-amanda-burden
Amanda Burden might be the most influential figure in New York City government, after Mayor Michael Bloomberg. As New York City Planning Commissioner for the past decade, she has spearheaded efforts to re-zone a huge swath of New York and reclaim its waterfront. While Burden focuses on those grand ambitions, she is also dedicated to details that make "streetscapes" work. Her supporters call her a visionary who will leave behind a much-improved city. But critics worry she’s creating gentrified neighborhoods that no longer welcome the working class. Diane talks with Amanda Burden about her role as the city’s planning commissioner and lessons learned from Hurricane Sandy.
Guests
Amanda Burden
director of New York City Department of Planning.
Photo Gallery: Planning New York City's Streetscape
Images courtesy of the New York City Department of Planning. All rights reserved.
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Is 'Climate Change' real ? Ask insurance companies. Ask the victims of Super Storm Sandy.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Clause. Its actual name is "U. S. Taxpayer" and is soon to be there for you with $30 Billion - and there is nothing we can do to stop it.
Seems it would be more appropriate for NYC to have a bake sale on Wall Street to divine the funds to rebuild rather than pull it out of the near empty pockets the Wall Street gamblers have left us with.
Sandy was a category one hurricane, the weakest there is. The level of ignorance shown in this so called debate about "climate change" is noteworthy. Sandy is just the latest example of some peoples desire to believe anything that they think helps their argument for more government. It does not and you look like a fool. Every weather event is now evidence of global warming to those who are capable of believing anything and the democrat party is chock full of those. This goes nicely with the same crowd that thinks the deficit and debt are not a problem.
partisan politics wrote: "Sandy was a category one hurricane, the weakest there is. The level of ignorance shown in this so called debate about "climate change" is noteworthy. Sandy is just the latest example of some peoples desire to believe anything that they think helps their argument for more government. It does not and you look like a fool. Every weather event is now evidence of global warming to those who are capable of believing anything and the democrat party is chock full of those. This goes nicely with the same crowd that thinks the deficit and debt are not a problem."
While it is true that Sandy was a CAT-1, there was another low pressure storm to the West that made things worse. How can you explain the immense damage to the Jersey Shore--as well as the tri-state region (i.e. NJ, NY, CT)? How can you explain the severity of the storms and blizzards that have been happening over the course of the last few year? Take your feelings of government out of the equation and explain yourself please. Perhaps there is some imbalance in the environment that are causing such catastrophe. Have you ever thought about that?
partisan politics wrote:
The level of ignorance shown in this so called debate about "climate change" is noteworthy. Sandy is just the latest example of some peoples desire to believe anything that they think helps their argument for more government. It does not and you look like a fool. Every weather event is now evidence of global warming to those who are capable of believing anything and the democrat party is chock full of those. This goes nicely with the same crowd that thinks the deficit and debt are not a problem.
This level of ignorance goes nicely with the crowd that thinks we need to revisit Roe V Wade and Birth control. The "so called debate" has been settled by civilized modern inteligent human beings in 1988. There is no debate, it is science. Lets not let big buisness and the oil companies convince us it is not real so they can continue to profit while we the tax payers clean up their mess. This is getting old. Lets admit there is a problem and stop arguing about it. Lets work together to figure out the solution... If you are not convinced that global warming is caused by man then please climb out of your cave and into the 21st century and see here:
http://www.ted.com/talks/james_hansen_why_i_must_speak_out_about_climate...
FEMA is just another wasteful government agency that has created yet another level of federal government dependency, this time for states. The religion or faith for ever expanding big government has to be the most obvious example of self imposed ignorance. Religion that is based on a deity, there can never be absolute proof the deity does not exist, but the religion of big government despite the fact we see the failures and waste on a daily basis, the followers only ask for more.
I love the pic featured. An urban, green oasis. There have been discussions and studies on "green roofs" and their effects on the urban environment. With a green roof, the CO2 has somewhere to go--in the plants, as opposed to reflecting off of a conventional roof and back into the atmosphere, then emitting greenhouse gases, hence a warming trend.
" Perhaps there is some imbalance in the environment that are causing such catastrophe. Have you ever thought about that?"
Have you ever thought a storm is just a storm?
partisan politics wrote: "Have you ever thought a storm is just a storm?"
Really pp? Have can you explain the severity of such storms lately? Not just that, the flooding, the blizzards, the droughts? Science is confirming the evidence of global warming.
billydlyon wrote: "There is no debate, it is science"
Science is debate! "settled science" is absolutely contrary to what scientific exploration means. Settled science is something I thought we got rid of in the dark ages, apparently not.
What are the free market solutions for climate change... other then ignoring and denying it.
partisan politics wrote: "Science is debate! "settled science" is absolutely contrary to what scientific exploration means. Settled science is something I thought we got rid of in the dark ages, apparently not."
What is not "settled" about global warming?
"What is not "settled" about global warming?"
smirk in silence
This is a quote from Bill Moyers latest guest Naomi Klein. I think it explains alot:
"If you are deeply invested in this free-market ideology, you know, if you really believe with your heart and soul that everything public and anything the government does is evil and that, you know, our liberation will come from liberating corporations, then climate change fundamentally challenges your worldview, precisely because we have to regulate.
We have to plan. We can't leave everything to the free market. In fact, climate change is, I would argue, the greatest single free-market failure. This is what happens when you don't regulate corporations and you allow them to treat the atmosphere as an open sewer. So it isn't just, "Okay, the fossil fuel companies want to protect their profits." It's that it's that this science threatens a worldview. And when you dig deeper, when you drill deeper into those statistics about the drop in belief in climate change, what you see is that Democrats still believe in in climate change, in the 70th percentile. That whole drop of belief, drop off in belief has happened on the right side of the political spectrum. So the most reliable predictor of whether or not somebody believes that climate change is real is what their views are on a range of other political subjects. You know, what do you think about abortion? What is your view of taxes? And what you find is that people who have very strong conservative political beliefs cannot deal with this science, because it threatens everything else they believe."
http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-hurricanes-capitalism-democracy/
partisan politics wrote: "smirk in silence"
It's okay if you don't have an answer.
"This is a quote from Bill Moyers latest guest Naomi Klein"
Seriously, is there a more agenda driven show on the face of the planet than the "great society" Bill Moyers PBS pablum.
IndieLady7 wrote:"It's okay if you don't have an answer"
Contradictory data is all over the place, putting the data here is not going to change any minds that are obviously closed.
partisan politics wrote:
Science is debate! "settled science" is absolutely contrary to what scientific exploration means. Settled science is something I thought we got rid of in the dark ages, apparently not.
Your are entitled to your own opinions, but your are not entitled to your own science. Science is not debate, it is fact, discovered by explorative means. We are not debating gravity or other fundamental scientific truths. the facts are that CO2 is increasing in our atmosphere in large part due to burining fossil fuels. Increased CO2 in the atmosphere traps more heat... these facts are not up for debate.
partisan politics wrote:
billydlyon wrote: "There is no debate, it is science"
Science is debate! "settled science" is absolutely contrary to what scientific exploration means. Settled science is something I thought we got rid of in the dark ages, apparently not.
I agree with partisan here. There is no "settled" science. Newton's laws were considered settled until Einstein showed up and messed that up. Even gravity is up in the air at the moment, we don't know what it is or where it comes from.
With that said, we need to look at the data and make decisions based on which model fits that data best. The model that shows that global warming is caused by man's activities fits the data best at this time and therefore should be used in decisions. If a better model (and no one can say that there isn't a better one out there) is developed that fits the data better, then we need to make decisions based on that model. To not do so is truly living in the dark ages.
partisan politics wrote:
"This is a quote from Bill Moyers latest guest Naomi Klein"
Seriously, is there a more agenda driven show on the face of the planet than the "great society" Bill Moyers PBS pablum.
Yes there is. it is called Rush Limbaugh.
curious- what is Moyer's agenda, what does he get from pushing any agenda? Certainly not ratings or income...
What is Rush's agenda?
billydlyon wrote: "Science is not debate, it is fact"
Not fact, theory. You really need to educate yourself on basic science.
I really cant beleive we are having this conversation. This is why this country is in so much trouble. Please join the rest of us in the 21st century.
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I watched Ken Burns' "The Dust Bowl" last night on PBS.
I highly recommend it, even as the images continue to haunt me this morning.
I felt as if I were watching a slow-motion trainwreck... Awful, yet I could not look away.
The many parallels to our current situation -- financial as well as ecological -- were impossible to ignore.
http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/dustbowl/
"THE DUST BOWL chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the "Great Plow-Up," followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation..."
Paraphrasing Indiana Jones
"Science is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall."
"Mike Sergeant wrote:
I agree with partisan here. There is no "settled" science. Newton's laws were considered settled until Einstein showed up and messed that up. Even gravity is up in the air at the moment, we don't know what it is or where it comes from.
With that said, we need to look at the data and make decisions based on which model fits that data best. The model that shows that global warming is caused by man's activities fits the data best at this time and therefore should be used in decisions. If a better model (and no one can say that there isn't a better one out there) is developed that fits the data better, then we need to make decisions based on that model. To not do so is truly living in the dark ages."
Thank you for an enlightened comment about both the essence of science and the pragmatic nature of the proper decision making process...
Ignore Partisan Politics. No matter what you say, what facts you present or what history you try to educate him with, if it contradicts his myopic, constipated world view then it doesn't exist. Every reputable scientist supports the view that human contribution to global warming has brought acceleration of climate change resulting in increased devastation as to what otherwise would have occurred normally and more frequently. As to the dust bowl, what did he think, along with a number of the inhabitants of the dustbowl area, that they were being punished by "God" for some sin or whatever. Quite to the contrary it was an ecological disaster brought about by ignoring environmental principles of which people sounded warnings and like the climate scientists of today were dismissed as "alarmists" and frauds. "God" whatever that may be, doesn't cause ecological disaster, humans do.
Ok. With this new housing, will it be affordable? How can there be a guarantee that the neighborhoods aren't gentrified?
"Science is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall."
Very good! Climate change as put forward by the left has become their truth. True believers.
TRUE BELIEVER
it's impossible to argue with those true believers, as they think any counterevidence is proof of an evil conspiracy.
partisan politics wrote:
"This is a quote from Bill Moyers latest guest Naomi Klein"
Seriously, is there a more agenda driven show on the face of the planet than the "great society" Bill Moyers PBS pablum.
I understand you do not like the messenger, but lets focus on the claim. Humor me for a moment, and lets pretend that climate change is real. How do you respond to the idea that in accepting the "science" of climate change it challenges your world view, that the private sector, or free markets, can not solve every problem.
As to the issue of "settled science," of course there isn't. Every new discovery causes reexamination of what was previously considered. That's why reputable scientists are cautious in stating theories based upon the evidence they have discovered. There are some things, however, the basics of which can no longer be argued with any credibility such as evolution. In 1859 it was a theory, by 2012, not really, now the science of evolution is established as fact.