Friday, November 9, 2012

How to Improve Coastal Cities Climate Resilience: A Q&A with Cynthia Rosenzweig

Scientific American: Climate scientist Cynthia Rosenzweig has been studying the impacts of global warming on New York City since the 1990s, and was part of a group that analyzed the unique risks faced by the Big Apple way back in 2001. The group's report predicted what a once-a-century superstorm like Hurricane Sandy proved: the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel between major boroughs flooded, La Guardia Airport runways were underwater, and so on. More recently Rosenzweig helped chair the New York City Panel on Climate Change,...

URL: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=improve-new-york-climate-resilience
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