"The average temperature on Mars is the same as the average temperature on Earth."

[molly bloom]

I wonder how fast people pushing for cap and trade would complain about a mandatory tithe to the Catholic church.

Perhaps you could come up with an equation or a graph, while you're burning an unbeliever.

[molly bloom]

Considering we don't actually have reasonable predictions for sea level rise, I think that legislation is probably misinformed. Anyway, we don't need to worry about coastal communities.

You're more stupid than I give you credit for being. And honestly, you've already accrued a lotta credit.

By
JESSICA TERRELL and CARL GLASSMAN
THE DAY AFTER



The storm felled a tree in Titanic Park on Fulton Street in the Seaport. Carl Glassman/Tribeca Trib
Like the rest of the city and the region, Lower Manhattan woke up on Tues*day morning, Oct. 30, to the aftermath of the city’s worst storm in memory. From the South Street Seaport, where workers struggled to appraise damaged restaurants and shops, to Battery Park City where most residents had evacuated (but to the surprise of many still had power) an eerie quiet hung in the damp air.

Although flood damage was severe in parts of the Seaport and Financial District, the biggest challenge facing Downtown residents on Tuesday and, for many, the days after that, was lack of power.

What would become a seemingly ubiquitous roar of generators sucking up countless tonnage of river water from Lower Manhattan basements was only beginning to kick in.

Doormen like Charles Hall, working in the dark lobby of 310 Greenwich Street in Tribeca’s Independence Plaza, said the most frequently asked question in Tribeca on the day after the storm was, “What is the latest on electricity?”

At the 39-story IPN complex, which had no working elevators until Nov. 3, residents huffed their way slowly to upper floors using flashlights to navigate the dark stairways, and then the pitch-black hallways.

Though hardly as damaged as areas outside Manhattan, Downtown was hit hardest in the Seaport and the eastern edge of the Financial District, where water from the storm surge reached heights of six feet on several streets.

On Wall Street, between South and Front, maintenance workers on that Tuesday—and for days after that—were pumping water from the basements of high-rise buildings. The water had risen at least five feet and appeared to have broken windows on the ground floor of 111 Wall Street.

“The whole basement was flooded,” said lawyer Peter Nissman, who noted that he lost many files to the stormwater. “We came by on Sunday to move them to higher shelves. I had no idea the water would go so high.”

The South Street Seaport’s historic ships had no signs of visible damage, but most of Pier 16—which had been covered with five feet of water—and Pier 17—was off limits.

Pier 15 appeared undamaged but the air was heavy with the smell of fuel and the water to the south had the sheen of an oil slick.

The end of Pier 17 is higher than that of Pier 16, so many ground-floor shops had been spared significant damage, according to a guard working in the area.
“Nothing was as bad here as it was across the street,” he said, nodding toward Fulton.

The ground floors of most buildings on Schermerhorn Row were flooded, and many of the side streets below Pearl off Fulton were damaged by the rushing tide.

On the other side of the island, Battery Park City—where most people had left their homes—ended up faring the best of Downtown neighborhoods, with power remaining on in almost all the buildings. Only number 400 in Gateway Plaza lost power, and remained without it for another three days. “It’s unbelievable,” said Jane Dunsmuir, a Battery Park City resident. “It feels like we are in this magical little bubble here.”



With power out throughout Lower Manhattan, food was hard to find. In Tribeca, at Morgan's Market, above, Picnic Basket and Amish Market, stores were open but in the dark. Carl Glassman/Tribeca Trib.
There was almost no place to buy food in Lower Manhattan on the day after the storm, though in Tribeca three smaller markets, Morgan’s, Picnic Bas*ket and Amish Market, stayed open for customers willing to shop by flashlight. And there were many.

http://www.tribecatrib.com/content/deluged-glimpses-lower-manhattan-days-flood

[MrFun]

The HUGE difference is the left laughs at these idiots and locks them out of policy making decisions while the right is 100% owned and controlled by their anti-science idiots.

Yeah, that's true.

The Tealiban has much greater influence and power over the Republican Party than any far left-wing fringe party has over the Democratic Party.

[Sava]

Tealiban

sigh

[MrFun]

sigh

Got a question. Do you get your panties twisted up over any type of politically incorrect word or statement?

[Sava]

sigh = "panties twisted up"

??

"Tealiban" is annoying because it's stupid and partisan. If you want anyone outside of liberal circle jerks to take you seriously, don't say it.

[MrFun]

sigh = "panties twisted up"

??

"Tealiban" is annoying because it's stupid and partisan. If you want anyone outside of liberal circle jerks to take you seriously, don't say it.

I think Tealiban is a fair descriptor, given that so many Tea Baggers seem to want a theocratic government instead of a democratic republic.

[Sava]

It's an analogy that makes liberals cream their pants.

Do I actually have to do a real world comparison of the two?

Don't be an idiot.

You'd think after listening to OBAMAHITLERFASCISTISLAMOFAGisms for the last 6 years would have taught you why doing that is stupid, bad, wrong, and completely unhelpful.

also, i'm a little crankypants today from too much toddler/baby time... so take that into consideration

[The Mad Monk]

New Orleans approves of this policy. 2005 was a stellar year.

New Orleans was the result of the natural barriers sinking, not the sea levels rising; the sinking resulted from restrictions to the channel of the Mississippi, which prevented natural sediment deposition.

[Pax]

They do?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/10/gmo-labels-congress_n_5576255.html

You'll note one of the Congressmen with "D" next to their name is listed as fighting for labeling (which HuffPo is not in any way laughing at - rather is pushing anti-GMO).

Labeling is bad? Knowledge must also be bad.

[Lorizael]

Labeling is bad? Knowledge must also be bad.

Here's a good source for figuring out what's in your food.

[Dinner]

A little of both. Yes, the town is sinking as it was built on a swamp with loosely consolidated sediments, and impacts of human activities has reduced the natural defenses (dams prevent sediments from reaching the ocean, boats cause wakes which erode swamp grass, etc...) but sea levels have also risen modestly so, yes, that is also part of the cause.

[Dinner]

Labeling is bad? Knowledge must also be bad.

I'm not even remotely anti-GM but for a free market to work the consumer HAS to be able to get the information to make an informed choice for what ever reason they want. I agree with you, labeling is not being anti-GM nor anti-science, and I support so that people can make what ever choices they feel like making. I'll still buy the cheapest which means I will be buying a lot of GMO stuff but for those who don't want to, well, they should have that right and that means there MUST be labels. If you're against labels then you are basically anti-free market because you're attempting to restrict information to prevent consumers from making what ever choices they want.

[Dauphin]

New Orleans was the result of the natural barriers sinking, not the sea levels rising; the sinking resulted from restrictions to the channel of the Mississippi, which prevented natural sediment deposition.

Did you miss what I said? I said it was a demonstration of policy shortsightedness, not climate change.

I have not made any claim that hurricanes are related to global warming. My point is about policy short sightedness. Sorry you couldn't see that obvious point.

[The Mad Monk]

I even quoted what you said; did you read what reg said? If you don't want it to be restricted to what reg said, don't quote reg.