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Have you heard of “storm surges”? I didn’t say NYC would be flooded, I said it would have significantly more sandy-like events (where the storm surge was alrea
by RC_ITR 4y ago
Have you heard of “storm surges”?
I didn’t say NYC would be flooded, I said it would have significantly more sandy-like events (where the storm surge was already 3-4m in battery park city).[1]
And I don’t know how much you know about tides given your above comment, but starting out a meter higher usually has nonlinear effects on how far inland waves can travel.
[1] https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/national/2012/10/supplemental/page-7/ https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/national/2012/10/supplemental...
- jjcon 4y ago10 meters is still way too much - have another look at your own source - we’re talking an extra meter at best over typical highs - again nowhere near 10m even with the worst case meter of rise in the next 100 years.
- RC_ITR 4y agoAgain, 1m rising sea level != 1 meter higher storm surges (don't even get me started on the oceans being a bigger heat well and causing larger storms). Don't forget Sandy was a Category 1 hurricane whose eye made landfall in Southern New Jersey. It was by no means a worst case scenario. You can minimize climate change all you want, but maybe do some research first?