Friday, December 28, 2012

Superstorm lessons for adapting to climate change

New Scientist: PYRAMIDS of rubble still dominate the streets of Union Beach, New Jersey. Boats are parked in odd places, while a layer of glass and grit makes the sidewalks crunch. Down by the water everything is quiet. You can see Manhattan across the bay, framed by the skeletons of dwellings devoured by one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the US east coast. Superstorm Sandy killed more than 100 people last October, destroyed tens of thousands of homes and stranded millions without power or heat. The...

URL: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23036-superstorm-lessons-for-adapting-to-climate-change.html?cmpid=RSS%7CNSNS%7C2012-GLOBAL%7Cclimate-change
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