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Tag Archives: climate change
Why I Am Marching for Climate
On Sunday at noon, many thousands of concerned citizens will be marching to the United Nations in Manhattan to protest the lack of progress to reduce global carbon dioxide emissions, with the 2013 rate at its fastest rate ever. Each year, believe … Continue reading
Posted in climate, opinion
Tagged climate change, committed sea level rise, flooding, global warming, march, morality, sea level rise, United Nations
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Is there a Future to Skiing in the Adirondacks?
I often find myself correcting environmentalists about their mis-representations of certain aspects of the scientific consensus on climate change. For example, after Hurricane Katrina trashed New Orleans, I think that hurricanes seemed to be a politically useful topic for getting … Continue reading
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Tagged Adirondack, Big Tupper, climate change, Dewey Mountain, global warming, Lake Placid, McCauley Mountain, Mt. Pisgah, New York, ski, snow, snowpack, Wanakena
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Our Cozy Little Heat Island
As our year’s coldest weather may be on its way this weekend, it might warm you to compare this spell to one lesser-known historical cold temperature record. New York City metro area winters are a quite a bit warmer than … Continue reading
Posted in climate, weather
Tagged climate change, cold, freeze, global warming, heat island, long island, new jersey, New York City, night, record, urban, winter
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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
Posted in climate, water
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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The NYC Storm Surge Threat
New York City is highly vulnerable to a hurricane strike due to its location near the coast where winds and storm surges are usually at their maximum. On one hand, we are fortunate that direct hurricane strikes are extremely rare … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, flooding, hurricane, Manhattan, model, New York City, nor'easter, risk, sea level rise, storm, storm surge, subway
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