Albany, NY – A new state environmental report predicts sea levels could rise more than four feet in some coastal areas of New York state over the next 70 years with dramatic implications for New York City, Long Island and the lower Hudson Valley.
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The draft report from the Sea Level Rise Task Force notes New York Harbor’s waters have risen 15 inches in 150 years. Harbor gauges show they rose four to six inches since 1960.
The warming climate that melts polar ice, rising seas and further coastal development are expected to make coasts more vulnerable to storms and flooding.
The state has more than 3,000 miles of coastline, with more than 60 percent of New Yorkers living on or near waterfronts.
The report urges studies and planning to adapt.
Therefore everyone having a house and paying taxes should be taxed another $3,000 annually because something may happen 50 years down the line. Baloney global warming maniacs trying to cause havoc. Scare tactics.
On the bright side: I won’t have to water my lawn.
The water could rise 4′ in some coastal areas?? If it rises in one spot it rises all over the world the same.
#1 if you live in a low lying area, taxes will be the least of your problems!
Goodbye Brighton Beach, Seagate and Sheepshead bay.
that is not accurate #3.the sargasso sea for instance which is in the atlantic ocean is a diffrent level then the atlantic.many other circumstances cause diffrent tidal hieghts.