According to a recent study, notes Doyle Rice of USA Today, "The risk of major New York City flooding — such as what happened during Superstorm Sandy in 2012 — is likely to occur once every 25 years, rather than every 500 years, as a result of human-caused global warming." He explains in detail that because climate change tends to result in more extreme tropical storms/hurricanes, sea level has been rising and therefore creating a bigger risk to those inhabitants of New York City, N.Y.
Just like the "nor'easter hurricane" Sandy years ago (which, interestingly, is not the same as a hurricane down south), these upcoming storms will be created due to the rising level of sea water, the forcefulness of the storm, and the high tide. And similarly to how Sandy left "many of New York City's subway and traffic tunnels flooded, and...breached the sea walls on the southern tip of Manhattan", these storms bring with them an omen of destruction.
I hope that, with the new technology available to determine further information on these storms, we can not only prevent further tragedy but inform the ignorant about what we are doing to our beautiful, ephemeral Earth. By learning more about what has been causing such drastic and unhealthy changes to nature, we can show the people of today and tomorrow how we must care for our planet not only for ourselves for our sake, but for the sake of all that is living.
The article below expands upon New York's dangerous storms: http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2015/09/28/new-york-city-flooding-floods-flood-hurricane-sandy-climate-change/72987564/
Shelby Flowers
ReplyDeletethis is really interesting! i cant wait to find out.....also that is a huge difference from every 500 years to every 25 years