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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
Posted in climate, water
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 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
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Tagged carbon dioxide, climate change, glacier, global warming, ice, ice age, interglacial, melt, meltwater, Pliocene, sea level rise, Vivien Gornitz
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