{"id":4481,"date":"2009-02-19T15:34:29","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T20:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4481"},"modified":"2009-02-19T15:34:29","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T20:34:29","slug":"he_tackled_transfat_traffic_congestion_and_now_climate_change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/02\/he_tackled_transfat_traffic_congestion_and_now_climate_change.html","title":{"rendered":"He Tackled Transfat, Traffic Congestion And Now Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time was, mayors cared about <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/10\/remembering-a-snowstorm-that-paralyzed-the-city\/\">snow removal<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/declaring_jihad.html\">potholes<\/a>, but jeez, you know what, I&#8217;m sold &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/02172009\/news\/regionalnews\/bloombergs_dire_forecast_155637.htm\">deliver him a third term already<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The streets of New York may look more like the canals of Venice in the coming decades as temperatures &#8212; and water levels &#8212; rise to dangerous new heights, according to a report released today by a panel of scientists assembled by Mayor Bloomberg. <\/p>\n<p>Similar to a scary sci-fi movie, the scientists said water levels around the city could rise by two feet or more in the coming decades and average temperatures likely go up at least 4 degrees, according to a report by the New York City Panel on Climate Change.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Planning for climate change today is less expensive than rebuilding an entire network after a catastrophe,&#8221; said Bloomberg. &#8220;We can&#8217;t wait until after our infrastructure has been compromised to begin to plan for the effects of climate change.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time was, mayors cared about snow removal and potholes, but jeez, you know what, I&#8217;m sold &#8212; deliver him a third term already: The streets of New York may look more like the canals of Venice in the coming decades as temperatures &#8212; and water levels &#8212; rise to dangerous new heights, according to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,64,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fear_mongering","category-please_make_it_stop","category-the_weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4482,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4481\/revisions\/4482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}