Posted on 02/18/2015 7:19:48 AM PST by lowbridge
In a new report issued Tuesday, scientists painted a picture that could be even more frightening than the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy. Climate change could hit New York with higher temperatures, dramatically rising sea levels, more rainfall and flooding, they said.
Temperatures are expected to jump 4.1 to 5.7 degrees by the 2050s — and by the 2080s, it could be 8.8 degrees hotter than the current average of 54 degrees, according to the study by the New York City Panel on Climate Change, a group of leading scientists assembled by the city.
By mid-century, the city could get five to seven heat waves a year compared to two currently, and the number of days over 90 degrees could double. The mercury is expected to crack 100 three to five days a year, compared to less than once every year.
“We expect temperatures to increase, precipitation likely to go up as well, and an acceleration of sea level rise,” said Radley Horton, a Columbia University scientist and panel member. “Sea level rise alone is going to increase the flood risk.”
Sea levels will increase 11 to 21 inches by the 2050s, 18 to 39 inches by the 2080s, and 22 to 50 inches by 2100, the group warned. And in the worst case scenario, the jump will be more than 6 feet if climate change goes unchecked.
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It seems that the more evidence against global warming/climate change being man made, the more desperately the believers cling to their lies.
My backyard ends in seawater... levels haven’t changed in over twenty years..
Facts like that are a foreign concept to people who think all you have to do is close your eyes, click your red shoes together three times, and wish things were different.
So, researchers have found that water does not act naturally in NYC. Who would have thought it, water that does not seek it’s natural level, SEA LEVEL.
Interesting; those one or two over a hundred degree days that NYC has, out here if I only had one or two days over a hundred in the summer I would be worried about the next Ice Age. Echos of the 1970’s
“So what’s the problem?”
No more new york pizza, bagels, and deli food.
Other than that, I got nothing.
Yes. You’re so right...
Just a few weeks ago they predicted the most massive snowstorm ever for NYC.
Ooops.
An interesting theory on that is included in Immanuel Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision. A good read written in 1950 before space technology, and many of his presumptions have been confirmed (such as the high temperature of Venus).
I’ll worry about the 2080s when they get here.
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Me too, if I live to 136.
Starting next year, it won’t snow in the US any more.
Interesting, thanks!
Those ice floes that have been made much of lately were caused by man-made breaking-up of the ice farther north. It’s related to the cold winter, though, because they don’t always need to break up the ice on the Hudson, only in very cold winters.
I think Seattle is similar....and they have earthquake issues, too...and can’t seem to get that new viaduct built (on waterfront)...that I predicted would be MUCHO PROBLEMO ....
With all the garbage on the streets, maybe New York is sinking....how could sea levels raise faster there than in the rest of the world???
OH NO..IT'S OVER FOR US HERE......Sears has stopped selling winter coats here in my Indiana town....all is lost......Oh, never mind, Sears closed their store here....sorry.
“Temperatures are expected to jump 4.1 to 5.7 degrees by the 2050s — and by the 2080s, it could be 8.8 degrees hotter than the current average of 54 degrees, according to the study by the New York City Panel on Climate Change, a group of leading scientists assembled by the city.”
As always, New Yorkers think they are bigger and better than the rest of the world.
Even the IPPC latest report says only 4.5 degrees F rise by 2080, and a sea level rise of 2 ft in a century.
Cry Wolf IPPC report here -
http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/syr/SYR_AR5_SPM_Final.pdf
I guess NY really wants to be bigger and better...:^)
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