Monday, November 3, 2025

Klaus Jacob Endorses Nate Mitchell For Piermont Mayor.

Sure, judging from the photo above, maybe he has a little to learn from Wilford Brimley about hemoglobin A1c.
 
Yet aside from the sweet-tooth he has photographically acknowledged on social media, Klaus Hans Jacob, Ph.D. a/k/a “Clever Hans”, a geophysicist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, is renowned as the smartest individual in Piermont, New York. If anyone is going to save Piermont residents from flooding and save Piermont resident taxpayers from economic disaster, it is Klaus H. Jacob. His curriculum vitae is below. His I.Q. probably exceeds 200.
 
Just how intelligent is Klaus Jacob? 

Klaus is intelligent enough to have endorsed Nate Mitchell as the next Mayor of Piermont:
Yet, note. Klaus is also intelligent enough to have declined to endorse Kevin Timoney for the same post.
 
So – which Piermont luminaries are seeking to prop-up Kevin Timoney’s dysfunctional mayoral campaign by way of counterpoise?
 
Oh… That’s right… Kevin Timoney is the planted and anointed wannabe successor to failed Garmento Mayor Bruce Tucker, the clown currently under New York State investigation and audit by the New York State Comptroller:
While Kevin Timoney and his enablers apparently never sought or obtained the formal written endorsement of Bruce Tucker, since that endorsement would have manifest itself as an abject malignancy, Kevin Timoney is still clearly Bruce Tucker’s puppet. Kevin Timoney is Bruce Tucker’s pony boy. Bruce Tucker and Tucker’s minions propped up Kevin Timoney to begin with. Bruce Tucker desperately wants Kevin Timoney to win tomorrow’s Piermont mayoral election because Bruce Tucker hates Kevin Timoney’s opponent Nate Mitchell even more than Tucker hates principles and propriety:
So – let’s weigh the two sides.
 
In Nate Mitchell’s corner, you have Piermont’s Albert Einstein, the climate change savior:
In Kevin Timoney’s corner, on the other hand, you have Piermont’s very own Meyer Lansky, the dumbest anthropology major to ever slither through Binghamton University:
In 1979, by the way, the year that Bruce Tucker claims to have graduated state school SUNY B, the average SAT scores for students there were 493 in math and 505 in critical reading - not exactly the double-800s that would get you Harvard-bound back then. And, look... Here are Bruce and some of his buddies ostensibly in SAT preparation - it being highly unlikely that the photograph’s signage backdrop was unintentional:
Moreover, Bruce Tucker did not do a lot better once he slimed his way into the real world, either. Bruce Tucker is the only flunked-out garmento anyone has ever heard of who got busted by Good Housekeeping and the Wall Street Journal for falsifying thread-counts in sheets he sold wholesale to the garment industry:
https://unhandpiermont.blogspot.com/2024/11/piermont-mayor-bruce-tucker-and-rainbow.html
 
Needless to say – I’m with Klaus. Nate Mitchell is the only intelligent choice for the next Mayor of Piermont.
 
And hey, Klaus? Go easy on that ice cream, will ya? We need you to stick around and solve Piermont’s flooding problem.
https://lamont.columbia.edu/directory/klaus-hans-jacob
Columbia University in the City of New York
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
 
Klaus Hans Jacob
 
Klaus H. Jacob, Ph.D., is a geophysicist and a rebuilder. He has worked at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory for over 50 years. He is a renowned earthquake, disaster, and climate expert. He has a focus on disaster risk management, with most current research on rising sea levels, climate change and disaster resilient megacities.
 
Jacob served on the Mayor’s New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC, 2008-2019); the NY State’s ClimAID project; and the post-Sandy, HUD-sponsored Rebuild by Design (RBD) research advisory group. TIME Magazine named him one of 50 “people who mattered in 2012” for forecasting consequences of a SANDY-like storm on New York City a year before SANDY hit. He developed for the NY MTA and specifically for its NYC-Transit subway system a climate change adaptation model plan.
 
Jacob taught courses in disaster risk management at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs; in the Sustainability Management Program of the CU School of Professional Studies; and at Barnard College. He co-led with CU GSAPP faculty international urban planning studios to make cities disaster resilient with focus on Caracas, Venezuela; Istanbul, Turkey; Accra, Ghana; CanTho, Vietnam; and Pune, Maharashtra/India; amongst other locations.
 
Prior to 2000, his basic and applied research focused largely on earthquake and volcano hazards in Alaska, and many regions on five continents, including Pakistan, Singapore, Australia, Egypt, El Salvador and others. He was a co-founder of the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (NCEER/MCEER), and a contributor to the Seismic Building and Bridge Construction Codes for the US, NY State, and NYC.
 
Jaocb often interacts with the media and professional organizations (architects; urban planners and designers; engineers, journalists) to raise public and professional awareness towards disaster and climates risks, and to achieve sustainable resilience.
 
Fields of Interest
Disaster Risk Management
Sustainable Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change and Sea Level Rise
Flooding Resilience of Coastal Mega-Cities Seismic and Volcanic Hazards
Transportation and Communication Infrastructure and Their Resilience to Ntural Hazard Risks
Disaster-Resilient Urban Planning, Design and Landuse
Education
BS, in Mathematics and Physics, Technical University of Darmstadt
MS, in Geophysics, Gutenberg University Mainz
PhD in Geophysics/Seismology, Goethe University, Frankfurt / Main
Honors & Awards
2013: "Hero of the NYC Harbor" Waterfront Alliance (NY/NJ)
 
Publications
Responding to Climate Change in New York State (ClimAID)  => See Chapter 9: Transporation
 
New York Academy of Sciences - Special Issue: Advancing Tools and Methods for Flexible Adaptation Pathways and Science Policy Integration
 
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - Sea level rise, storm risk, denial, and the future of coastal cities
 
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