You know a politician is clueless when they say they are saving the planet from "Global Warming"

Phony "Climate Change" bromides affixed to save the planet tax scams are the biggest indicator a politician has no idea of what the hell he's doing and can't administrate himself out of a brown paper bag. m/r

While Bloomberg Slurped - By Mark Steyn - The Corner - National Review Online

By Mark Steyn November 4, 2012 

Further to yesterday’s post about Nanny Bloomberg’s municipal priorities (regulating carbonated beverages), here’s a sharp piece by Roger Pielke Jr. on what he could have been doing:

A few excerpts from the New York City Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan (April, 2009, here in PDF) will indicate that absolutely nothing about Sandy and its impacts should have been a surprise to anyone. It would be fair to ask NY politicians why the city was not better prepared for a disaster that it saw coming. ...

A flood barrier is too prosaically municipal for a man of Bloomberg’s grand vision. “Saving the planet” is a whole lot easier than saving Staten Island.
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Psychological Barrier By Mark Steyn November 3, 2012  -full post - My weekend column deals in part with what ought to be the national disgrace of Hurricane Sandy’s impact. I write of Nanny Bloomberg: This is a man who spends his days micro-managing the amount of soda New Yorkers are allowed to have in their beverage containers rather than, say, the amount of ocean New Yorkers are allowed to have in their subway system. And I wondered why he hadn’t “expended as much executive energy on flood protection for the electrical grid and transit system”. The London Telegraph reports today on a plan for a five-mile storm-surge barrier across the mouth of New York’s harbor, similar to the far longer one in St Petersburg – or, indeed, to the Thames Barrier. Whatever the merits of the plan, I was struck by this passage: Michael Bowman, an oceanography professor at Long Island’s Stony Brook University is also involved in the project. He says the plan would cost around $10 billion “a small amount of capital expense compared to the damage from Hurricane Sandy,” he told The Telegraph. That’s true. I think Sandy’s costs are currently estimated at around $50 billion. But he’s missing the more basic point. In contemporary American governmental terms, $10 billion is “a small amount” compared to anything. It’s a rounding error. It would have been 1.2 per cent of Obama’s laughably misnamed “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act”. You could have 83 flood barriers for the cost of one lousy stimulus bill. And yet it never happened – and, if we’re honest with ourselves, in today’s sclerotic America, you can’t even imagine it happening, can you? Let us go to Nanny Bloomberg himself: But with so many prescient warnings, city authorities are struggling to explain why so little was done. Mayor Bloomberg has said it was difficult to translate such warnings into concrete action. They can chisel that on the epitaph of the republic. Because with Big Government American-style, no matter how many trillions of dollars are spent, it all goes to makework bureaucracies. What does Nanny B ever translate into “concrete action”? Why, here he is posing with a desktop of carbonated beverages. This is what passes for political leadership in America. Can you imagine this ridiculous man or the spendaholic president he’s endorsed ever actually building a flood barrier? As I say in my column, we are governed by men who spend everything but can’t do anything. We need an electoral flood to wash this crowd away. Tuesday would be a good start.