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In 2008, New York City's Mayor Bloomberg brought together leading climate scientists, academics and members of the private sector to advise the city on adapting to the impacts of climate change. This group, called the New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC), released its 2019 report in March. The report documents that local extreme weather events are becoming more frequent, longer lasting and more intense; temperatures in summer are getting hotter, and heavy downpours are increasing—changes that generally bear out the projections in the 2015 NPCC report.
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The design guidelines provide criteria to follow depending on the projected life of the building, the anticipated climate impacts and the location. For example, some areas of the city become especially hot in the summer because there is little shade and buildings are dense. Where this urban heat island effect is severe, designers should consider both how their buildings will worsen the heat and how they can withstand the heat. To lessen a building's contribution of heat, the guidelines suggest using light colored and reflective surfaces in building materials and on roofs, improving building insulation, increasing shade by planting trees and other plants, installing a green or blue roof (the latter is designed to store rainfall), and using other permeable surfaces that can retain moisture. To withstand the heat, heating and cooling systems should be assessed for durability; backup power systems might be needed, and passive solar cooling and ventilation is recommended.Sea level rise and the risk of tidal flooding need to be taken into consideration for all city buildings, especially those sited in current or future floodplains. If the risk is high, the building should be relocated. Otherwise, design strategies include constructing floodwalls or deployable flood barriers at the site, using natural systems such as restored wetlands, employing water-resistant materials, elevating critical systems, installing sump pumps, protecting underground telecommunications systems from damage, and providing backup power.
Maybe the city should take this route instead.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 29 2019, @06:55PM (10 children)
I think this video is for you: "Apes build megaliths in -16ºC holding lanterns in their mouths at night hanging on ladders"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpRP4xNIWbs&list=PLzrQcOwD5PiFCXEqEcUxalcUK0lLsj-tu&index=25 [youtube.com]
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 29 2019, @08:35PM
I didn't watch the video, but I saw the titles of the other videos in that playlist and I believe I now have cancer.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Monday April 29 2019, @09:13PM (8 children)
I will watch that when I have some time, it looks hilarious!
"Has history been tampered with"? looks really funny too. (The answer is no for sane people, but I wonder what that loony thinks).
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @12:39AM (7 children)
Actually there is something weird, supposedly there are no actual primary sources dating back to before ~1400 AD. A huge number of alleged ancient documents came from this guy alone who found them in all sorts of out of the way monasteries, etc: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poggio_Bracciolini [wikipedia.org]
He got rich by selling copies of these "found" documents.
It is odd that somehow all these documents from eg Roman times survived ~1500 years only to be lost in the last 500 years. So it really looks like there may be a bunch of forged documents that our history is based on or some collector has been hoarding all the originals, leaving us with possibly corrupted copies, or copies of copies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @01:37AM
And if you think these elaborate forgeries are too unbelievable: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berossus#Pseudo-Berossus [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday April 30 2019, @01:43AM (5 children)
That is a very odd conspiracy theory I had never heard before.
Thanks.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @02:15AM (3 children)
Another interesting thing is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_from_antiquity [wikipedia.org]
But there it stops. No one can trace their ancestry back to ancient Rome.
A few people have claimed Charlemagne is a mythical figure, possibly devised as a compromise amongst the various powerful families of Europe so that one was not "more ancient" (ie, better) than the others. This is proposed to have involved fabricating up to 1000 years of history, largely by taking stories about the same events from different perspectives and arranging them sequentially:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Chronology_(Fomenko) [wikipedia.org]
https://www.q-mag.org/the-1st-millennium-a-d-chronology-controversy.html [q-mag.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_hypothesis [wikipedia.org]
Interestingly, there is a cyclic pattern in the Carbon-14 record that repeats every ~5,300 years until the most recent cycle, which begins ~1800 years too late. That is just when the carbon dating and tree ring data is calibrated to "known" ages from archeology, etc:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/SK8DR.png [imgur.com]
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @03:27AM (2 children)
Can we work the weather war into this?
What if the weather modification devices were steam powered? Perhaps the goal of the alt-history conspiracy is to cover up the existence of a great steam age in antiquity. As the boilers cool and the clockwork devices wind down, the weather modification equipment begins to malfunction. If we don't send a crack team from the cut-throat world of archaeology (such as Indy and Daniel Jackson) to the Richat structure in Africa to restart the weather modification equipment, the climate of Earth will revert to a climate similar to Venus.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @03:44AM
Poor Nick gets left out? The least you can do is be smart and include Brendan!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @03:50AM
No. The loss of an authority to rely on when it comes to history tends to lead to wild speculations about what "really happened", which is fine as long as you keep in mind that is all they are.
In general though, people who think "weather modification" is a conspiracy are idiots:
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/cia-rdp64-00658a000100190009-9 [cia.gov]
https://www.nsf.gov/nsb/publications/1965/nsb1265.pdf [nsf.gov]
But unless you find some ancient plans to build such a device I see no reason to consider your theory.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30 2019, @03:28AM
Also, making up elaborate fake historical events has been a fad that pops up every now and then.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declamation [wikipedia.org]
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/declamation [dictionary.com] (origin of term ~ 1400 AD)