Wednesday, November 28, 2012
How Much of Brooklyn Could Global Warming Destroy?
Posted
by Henry Stewart
on Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 9:00 AM
On Sunday, the New York
Times published an interactive map showing what would happen—that is, how much land would be underwater—in different climate change scenarios to cities around the country. Brooklyn, as you may have guessed from what happened during Sandy, would not fare well, even in the milder possible futures. What would be lost?
Tags: brooklyn, waterfront, global warming, climate change, flooding, future generations are doomed