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Related: About this forumNYC Could Drown In Less Than a Century, Climate Change Map Shows
http://ny.curbed.com/2016/3/31/11340150/nyc-climate-change-underwater-citysnip
Have you been thinking about leaving New York City and moving somewhere that's less expensive? You may want to consider somewhere that's at a high elevation, too: According to an absolutely terrifying new report in the New York Times, climate change has sped up the melting of West Antarctic ice sheet to such a degree that coastal citiesNew York includedcould be underwater in as little as a century.
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Actually that shutterstock photo in the beginning makes no sense because they put the wave above 34th Street. The photo was taken looking to the south.
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NYC Could Drown In Less Than a Century, Climate Change Map Shows (Original Post)
LiberalElite
Mar 2016
OP
That would explain why the GOP doesn't want to stop manmade climate change. n/t.
Ken Burch
Apr 2016
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dogman
(6,073 posts)1. This would be a great debate topic.
Especially a debate based where this will take place.
GreenPartyVoter
(72,957 posts)2. Absolutely!
Historic NY
(37,717 posts)3. It already has.....
Super Storm Sandy, some area of Sheeps Head Bay routinely flood..still portions of Manhattan not fixed from the flooding. You can only build so many sea walls.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)4. That would explain why the GOP doesn't want to stop manmade climate change. n/t.