NYC Mayor Bloomberg uses his perch to become national global warming leader, says Mayors step up when Congress fails

• 8/18, "The Bloomberg All-Stars make another hire," NY Daily News, Daily Politics, by A. Lisberg

"Mayor Bloomberg is keeping his promise to shake up his administration in a third term -- and his latest hire is part of an interesting trend of bringing in rising stars from around the country to join the big time in New York....

• Amanda Eichel, the senior climate protection advisor in Seattle,
  

is coming next month to a newly-created job as senior policy advisor in the Mayor's Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability.

• She coordinated national climate change efforts for the U.S. Conference of Mayors --
  

stop me if you've heard

• Bloomberg say that mayors take action on issues that
  
• Congress ducks --
  

so expect her to do the same sort of national and international outreach here, only with a bigger megaphone.

Eichel will report to David Bragdon, another hot West Coast prospect, who is leaving his elected post running the Portland, Oregon Metro Council

• to become the new head of Bloomberg's sustainability office and his PlaNYC
  
• environmental push.

“Amanda will be a great addition to City Hall, and her appointment continues

• our practice of bringing in the best of
  

• America’s urban sustainability leaders
  

• to help us make a greener, greater New York,”
  

Deputy Mayor of Operations Steven Goldsmith said."...

Hitching his wagon to global warming, Bloomberg addresses United Nations in 2008.

• He told reporters global warming is as "lethal as terrorism" photo from Gothamist.

Bloomberg News has its own global warming website, New Energy Finance, and is big in carbon trading.

• 4/11/10, Mayor Bloomberg is seen as an 'international climate change leader.'

He still owns 90% of Bloomberg, LP:

• (Vanity Fair, Dec. 2008): "Even today, after a two-year period in which Mike Bloomberg flirted with a presidential run and in which secretive negotiations concerning a possible sale of his company valued it at upwards of $20 billion, very little is known about an operation with one of the largest editorial staffs in the world.

• (Bloomberg himself owns just about 90 percent of Bloomberg L.P. Based on recent valuations, its annual operating profit is estimated to be more than $1.5 billion.)"...