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King Tides, a Window to Future Sea Level Rise
In late October, there was a little photo op, an NYC runway show for climate change, so to speak. People were asked to go out and take a picture of the unusually high “king tide” which was about one foot … Continue reading
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Tagged beach, FDR Drive, glacier, Keyport, king tide, meltwater, Rockaway, sea level rise, spring tide, Upper East Side
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Rising Waters and Coastal Floods: Living with Sea Level Rise in NYC, Part 2/2
[This is the second of a pair of guest blog posts from Dr. Vivien Gornitz, a geologist and special research scientist with the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University Center for Climate Systems Research. The first post … Continue reading
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Tagged adaptation, Bloomberg, carbon dioxide, climate change, Coney, erosion, flooding, global warming, ice, Jamaica Bay, long island, meltwater, New York City, population, Rockaway, sea level rise, urban, Vivien Gornitz, waterfront plan
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Rising Waters and Coastal Floods: Living with Sea Level Rise in NYC, Part 1/2
[This is the first of a pair of guest blog posts from Dr. Vivien Gornitz, a geologist and special research scientist with the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University Center for Climate Systems Research. The first post … Continue reading
Posted in climate, water
Tagged carbon dioxide, climate change, glacier, global warming, ice, ice age, interglacial, melt, meltwater, Pliocene, sea level rise, Vivien Gornitz
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