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The 7 members are:
Harvey Ruvin
Jorge Gonzalez
T. Willard Fair
Jim Murley
David Enfield
Sara Fain
Arsenio Milian
The first meeting of the Task Force will be at Stephen P. Clark Center, 111 N.W. 1st Street, 18th Floor, 18-3
10AM, Monday
6 comments:
Well … we'll see how the builders associations kill this one off too.
ay yay yay - Harvey - why are you so stuck on desalinization plants? They were not recommended during the first Seal Level Rise Task Force that you chaired several years ago, so why bring them up again? Those plants take an incredible amount of energy to operate - the amount of fuel/electricity they need is staggering - and when they use this electricity/burn fuel, they emit Greenhouse Gases, which..... leads to climate change and sea level rise.
I'm still waiting for the South Dade Watershed Study to be dusted off and implement. The new unreformable majority will ignore the study if it comes back with anything not fitting their agenda.
When the seas are flooding downtown Miami, there will be blue ribbon panels until the last taxpayer turns out the lights.
The thing about dealing with Climate Change sea level rise - which, by the way, is just one manifestation of our altering the planet's climate (who wants to tackle drought, famine, disease, ocean acidification, extinction?) is you need to make decisions now as s if the waters were rising now. Because you can't adapt on a dime. That means canceling the "concreting" of barrier islands and coastal edges and western edges. No tennis stadium expansions or convention centers on barrier islands, no mega towers fronting Biscayne Bay, no highways ringing the Everglades. Is our distinguished panel up for making those recommendations?
I wish Harvey Ruvin would put more time into making court records more transparent (his real job) instead of forming committees to study rising sea levels.
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