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| RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN GLOBAL WARMING, SEA LEVEL RISE, AND STORM SURGES |
 "Maybe global warming and its effect on sea level play a part in drowning the Big Apple!" |
 | CLICK HERE TO READ A SUMMARY OF THE NASA - GODDARD STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GLOBAL WARMING, SEA LEVEL RISE AND STORM SURGES IN THE N.Y.C. REGION |
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 | CLICK HERE and answer questions 6 and 7 on Printout # D-2.
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 "All that sounds scary enough! Is there another source of data we can look at?!" |
| "We could look at data provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers!! I guess their data should be OK! They have produced some graphs that suggest how frequently storm surges of different magnitudes will hit the Big Apple!" |
| "You mean, what the 'recurrence interval' is for storm surges! OK, let's do it!" |
| "Righty-O, Lou! And while we're at it, we can compare what the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has to say with what the NASA-Goddard Institute says!! See whether or not they agree!" |
| "Sounds like the Storm Surge Exercise to me!!" |
| CLICK HERE TO LEARN ABOUT STORM SURGE FLOODING IN NYC ACCORDING TO THE U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS AND TO DO THE NY STORM SURGE EXERCISE
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| "Our worst fears confirmed! I wish we could stop global warming so sea level wouldn't rise!" |