A Year After Sandy, Climate Change Nearly Absent From NYC Mayoral Race
Ars Technica » Scientific Method 2013-10-29
Summary:
Neither candidate has said how they plan to rebuild Sandy-stricken communities and make New York more resilient to extreme weather events if elected.
By Katherine Bagley and Maria Gallucci
The devastation caused by Superstorm Sandy a year ago today thrust the issue of climate change into the center of the presidential campaign and to the top of the national political agenda.
And yet in the mayoral race for New York City, one of the epicenters of the tragedy, talk of climate is practically nowhere to be heard.
In nearly all of the mayoral debates and forums held this year, the issues of global warming and Superstorm Sandy have not come up. That's despite New York's struggles to recover from the storm, the city's vulnerability to future climate disasters and its reputation as a global warming leader under Michael Bloomberg.
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