Here in New York City, in the grip of the hysterical climate cult, we are undertaking a massive transformation of our energy system without anyone in authority having done the simple arithmetic to check whether the plans have any chance of succeeding. A big theme of this blog has been pointing out the obvious problems that mean that these “net zero” schemes can never work. But maybe it’s not really important whether they will ever work or not. Maybe the real point is just to spend a lot of (somebody else’s) money to show that you, somehow, “care.”
A very similar scenario is now playing out in the closely related category they are calling climate “resiliency.” The word means getting ready for the impending climate armaggedon. The armaggedon isn’t coming, of course, but we will anyway spend vast sums supposedly to show we are “doing something” about the problem. Whether the scheme in question might actually work is beside the point.
And thus a couple of days ago there debuted at the southern tip of Manhattan a completely remade Wagner Park. Wagner Park, originally opened in 1996 as part of the Battery Park City development, was previously just a pleasant waterfront lawn of about 3.5 acres. Then the eco-zealots came into the picture, and advocated that the park was at grave risk of inundation from the sea level rise attendant to anthropogenic global warming. The park needed to be raised up to save both itself and the larger inland areas of our fragile island.
About two years ago they began a massive earth-moving project to raise this park up about ten feet to stave off the sea. Now that the newly-renovated space has just re-opened, Steve Cuozzo at the New York Post has a piece reporting on the results, headline: “Wagner Park’s disastrous $300M eco-zealot makeover is an insult to downtown New York City.” Here is a picture from the Post of what the new space looks like:
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