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<governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote:

Add any admitted progressive to the cull list.

The increase in pits suddenly opening in city streets is tied to
the fate of the Earth.

Borough sidewalks are rupturing at record rates, and elected
leaders say there’s not a ton to be done — as the problem is far
larger than New York.

“The issue right now is we don’t know exactly what we would do
with more money that would systematically reduce the likelihood
of sinkholes,” Rohit Aggarwala, NYC’s chief climate officer and
the commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection,
said at a City Council meeting this Tuesday, referring to the
recent uptick in gaping voids appearing where cement was moments
earlier (also known as a sinkhole) and its connection to global
warming, Crain’s reported. “If something is random, you could
fix whatever you want and it may not have any impact.”

This past fiscal year saw a 38% rise in sinkhole sightings to a
total of 3,920. Among other factors, including infrastructure
issues, climate change is significantly to blame, Aggarwala said
at the meeting.

Virtually all pavement cave-ins are a result of water leaks,
with 45% due to city water mains and sewers, and 23% officially
“undetermined,” but generally a result of natural drainage, the
Department of Environmental Protection told Crain’s.
Inconsistent sewer infrastructure across boroughs in addition to
the uncontrollable forces of nature make predicting where the
next collapse is going to be more or less impossible.

“We just can’t pinpoint that this location is more vulnerable to
a cave-in than another location,” Department of Transportation
assistant commissioner for highway inspection and quality
assurance Vincent Maniscalco told the publication. “We’ve seen
brand-new streets develop cave-ins and older streets that have
none at all.”

Thus, New York is unfortunately in a “defensive position versus
a proactive position,” vice president of energy and environment
for the Regional Plan Association Robert Freudenberg said. “I
think what’s playing out is how the climate crisis is hitting
the city in ways that we might not have even considered.”

Comments:

Roden
4 hours ago

OK, so let’s say we believe you, and a sinkhole is directly
related to global warming.
Explain to us how global warming created that sinkhole,
scientifically.
Take your time.

https://nypost.com/2022/08/19/nycs-sinkhole-surge-due-to-climate- crisis-dep-commissioner/

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