NASA scientists warned about hurricane danger to New York:
Even as we act immediately to curtail short term vulnerability, every exposed coastal city needs a risk assessment that takes global warming scenarios into account…Scientists at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York have been studying that city’s vulnerability to hurricane impacts in a changing world, and calculated that with 1.5 feet of sea level rise, a worst-case-scenario Category 3 hurricane could submerge “the Rockaways, Coney Island, much of southern Brooklyn and Queens, portions of Long Island City, Astoria, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, lower Manhattan, and eastern Staten Island from Great Kills Harbor north to the Verrazano Bridge.” (Pause and think about that for a second.)
While Sandy was a Category 1 for wind, it was a Category 3 for storm surge.
Wait until the earthquakes caused by offshore fracking and the 100′ tidel waves that crash over New Jersey and New York. You’ll all be in for it then. 🙂
I’ve watched the same ‘What If a Hurricane strikes New York’ documentary on Discovery, History Channel and god know what else at least a 100 times over the past several years. It was amazing to see live images the other night that were CGI imagery from the show come to life. Everything that happened during Sandy was exactly predicted subject to only some variation in water depth.