Time: Superstorm Sandy, which made landfall on the East Coast a month ago yesterday, wasn`t a particularly powerful storm. But what it did have was water--lots of it. Sandy pushed record storm surges in places like lower Manhattan, and it was the flooding triggered by those surges--much more than the winds accompanying the storm--that caused the tens of billions of dollars in damages attributed to the Superstorm. But our coastlines were already primed for those kinds of catastrophic floods, thanks in...
URL: http://science.time.com/2012/11/30/climate-change-polar-ice-sheets-melting-faster-raising-sea-levels/
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