Climate Change
by Joseph Romm · 3 Dec 2015 · 358pp · 93,969 words
are not? What is the role of natural climatic variation, such as the El Niño–La Niña cycle, in extreme weather? Did climate change cause Hurricane Sandy (and why is that the wrong question to ask)? How does climate change affect heat waves? How does climate change affect droughts? How does climate
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—that provides a strong set of fingerprints that human-caused climate change is already having a noticeable impact on our weather. Did climate change cause Hurricane Sandy (and why is that the wrong question to ask)? “The answer to the oft-asked question of whether an event is caused by climate change
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was “caused” by global warming. Consider one of the most off-the-charts weather events in U.S history, Superstorm Sandy. On October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy devastated the Northeastern United States, killing more than 100 people, destroying entire communities, and inflicting more than $70 billion in damages. Sandy was the second
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rise and increased water vapor—are unequivocal. The third is extremely likely. The fourth is more speculative. So human-caused global warming did not “cause” hurricane Sandy, but it certainly made the storm more damaging, and it may well be a key reason it ravaged coastal New York and New Jersey. How
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the most intense and damaging superstorms, which would further boost storm surge for those storms beyond the average rise in sea levels. A 2013 study, “Hurricane Sandy Inundation Probabilities Today and Tomorrow,” by NOAA researchers explored the impact of sea-level rise on storm surge. That analysis found that future Superstorm Sandy
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climate change making hurricanes more destructive? The most damaging aspect of a hurricane is the storm surge, as in the case of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Sandy. We have already seen that sea-level rise is increasing the chances of a Sandy-level storm surge. In addition, we know that global warming
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in an environment with increasingly higher sea levels. This means storm surges will get worse and worse. Put another way, a much weaker storm than Hurricane Sandy will cause comparable damage when sea levels are a few feet higher. The kind of sea-level rise we appear to be headed toward will
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of Mexico and, 58 Hurricane Sandy, 33 climate change causing, 37–40 storm surges associated with, 55–57 hybrid vehicles, 228–233 advantages of, 227–228 disadvantages of, 227–228 hydrogen
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are not? What is the role of natural climatic variation, such as the El Niño–La Niña cycle, in extreme weather? Did climate change cause Hurricane Sandy (and why is that the wrong question to ask)? How does climate change affect heat waves? How does climate change affect droughts? How does climate
The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us
by Diane Ackerman · 9 Sep 2014 · 380pp · 104,841 words
’s the theory. Hurricane Irene tore up his oyster beds, which he promptly reseeded, knowing he’d have to wait two more years for harvest. Hurricane Sandy smothered the oyster beds yet again. Clams have a better chance of surviving a hurricane because they at least have a strong foot and can
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of nuclear winter, 8–9 hummingbirds, 126 hunter-gatherers, 71 Huntington’s disease, 271 Hurricane Irene, 57 Hurricane Katrina, 46 hurricanes, 31, 41, 43, 55 Hurricane Sandy, see Sandy, Hurricane hybrid cars, 100 Hyde Park, 142 hydroelectronic power, 100, 107 hydroponic gardening, 83, 89, 90 Icarus, 224 icebergs, 195–96, 197 Iceland
The Ones We've Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America
by Charlotte Alter · 18 Feb 2020 · 504pp · 129,087 words
that the boys’ deaths weren’t his fault. “You know, it’s one of those things,” he said. At least 147 people died because of Hurricane Sandy. The storm caused $65 billion in damage. Eventually, the federal government spent $766 million to rebuild homes in flood zones in the Rockaways and New
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Charges,” The Charlotte Observer, March 1, 2017, charlotteobserver.com/news/local/crime/article135714318.html. THE BIG ONE between Brooklyn and Manhattan: Inae Oh, “The Night Hurricane Sandy Hit New York City,” The Huffington Post, October 29, 2013, huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/28/sandy-anniversary_n_4170982.html. safer place to stay: Raymond
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Hogg, David, 41, 247 Houlahan, Chrissy, 268, 270 Howe, Neil, xiv Hultgren, Randy, 206, 231, 242 Hurricane Harvey, 193 Hurricane Katrina, 43 Hurricane Maria, 225 Hurricane Sandy, 129 Hurst, Chris, 212 identity politics, 60–61 immigration, 160, 254, 279–80 income inequality deregulation and privatization and, 219 in 1920s, 216–17, 219
Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming
by Mckenzie Funk · 22 Jan 2014 · 337pp · 101,281 words
it is hastened as parched cities drain their aquifers and begin to sink, accelerated as Greenland’s ice cap melts into the sea. And after Hurricane Sandy and Typhoon Bopha and failure after failure to cut global carbon emissions, it is not entirely distant. To explore these changes in order—from melt
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by 47 percent. Instead, both dropped tens of thousands of policies, as Allstate also did in storm-surge-threatened areas of New York long before Hurricane Sandy arrived: thirty thousand canceled policies in the five boroughs alone. The companies had more success raising rates in California: a few weeks after the Little
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would remain safely stuck on the other side. TEN SEAWALLS FOR SALE WHY THE NETHERLANDS LOVES SEA-LEVEL RISE On a Monday the year before Hurricane Sandy hit New York City, attorneys and ambassadors sat in a cavernous auditorium at Columbia University discussing what happens, legally speaking, when an island nation disappears
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Columbia disaster expert Klaus Jacob, whose research on New York City’s vulnerability to storm surges would turn him into a minor media star after Hurricane Sandy, presented his study of how long, and at what cost, the Marshallese capital would be sustainable. For planning purposes, he explained, “risk” was measured in
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near Jamaica Bay if you also want to protect JFK airport. There are four holes, luckily not more than that.” It was three years before Hurricane Sandy began forming in the southern Caribbean and spinning its way north. A conference had just been announced by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE
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worth $825 billion with contents worth $560 billion. Another speaker highlighted Breezy Point, the Queens neighborhood that would be flattened by waves and fire in Hurricane Sandy, as particularly at risk. The scientists were followed by engineers and architecture firms presenting rival storm-surge barrier designs, and the Arcadis team gave a
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than the core, just above sea level, and slated for an even bigger surge. Manhattan would be saved, and they would likely be underwater. When Hurricane Sandy hit New York City in late October 2012, there was not yet a barrier, just a hint of what could come. On Staten Island, a
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Cuba Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet
be delighted (if absolutely gobsmacked) with your custom! Getting There Away The journey east to Santiago is one of Cuba’s most spectacular, but, since Hurricane Sandy, only passable in a 4WD. If you hike it to Las Cuevas, you can pick up public transport there (even that’s sporadic). There aren
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, and a construction boom in the 1990s gifted the city a new theater, a train station and a five-star Meliá hotel. In October 2012 Hurricane Sandy wrought havoc along the province’s coast. Santiago de Cuba Street Names Welcome to another city where the streets have two names. Old name New
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Palmares restaurant, jutting out over the water on the cayo’s (key’s) far side, should expand options. Sadly, Cayo Granma took a beating in Hurricane Sandy and several buildings lie in ruins. To get to the key, take the regular ferry (leaving every one to 1½ hours) from Punta Gorda just
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crabs. From mid-March to early May tens of thousands of large land crabs congregate along the coast beyond Playa Verraco. HURRICANE SANDY Eastern Cuba is no stranger to hurricanes, but when Hurricane Sandy struck in late October 2012 it caused particularly severe detriment to Siboney, La Gran Piedra and Parque Baconao (not to
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Cuba. There are also three buses a day. Theoretically, one daily truck trundles along to Campismo la Mula and the Pico Turquino trailhead but, since Hurricane Sandy, transport on to Marea del Portillo is almost unheard of (the road is nigh-on impassable). CYCLING FROM SANTIAGO DE CUBA TO PICO TURQUINO The
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
by Eric Klinenberg · 10 Sep 2018 · 281pp · 83,505 words
” so that public investments in security don’t just mitigate disaster damage but also strengthen the networks that promote health and prosperity during ordinary times. Hurricane Sandy marked a turning point in the way government and civic groups think about climate security. The “superstorm” of 2012 covered an area more than one
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
by Jeff Goodell · 23 Oct 2017 · 292pp · 92,588 words
reshape our world in ways most of us can only dimly imagine. My own interest in this story began with an actual hurricane. Shortly after Hurricane Sandy hit New York City in 2012, I visited the Lower East Side of Manhattan, one of the neighborhoods that had been hardest hit by flooding
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the risk of damage from hurricanes: the higher the ocean is to begin with, the higher the storm surge will be pushed onto land. When Hurricane Sandy hit New York City in 2012, increased wave height caused by sea-level rise resulted in about $2 billion in additional damage to the city
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seawall about six feet below us. “During Sandy,” he said darkly, “the storm surge was eleven feet high here.” As Zarrilli knows better than anyone, Hurricane Sandy, which hit New York City in October 2012, flooding more than 88,000 buildings in the city, killing 44 people, and causing over $19 billion
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yet, but perhaps in a few years they will be. That was yet another step down a long and increasingly wet road. Klaus Jacob was Hurricane Sandy’s Cassandra. Jacob is a retired research scientist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, where he spent forty years researching earthquake prediction science
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house right on the water. His son, Daniel Mundy Jr., who was in his early fifties, lived across the canal, also facing the water. When Hurricane Sandy hit, they were lucky—they got five feet of water in their homes, but the houses suffered little structural damage. Others were not so lucky
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Jersey shore is the loss of arcades, boardwalks, amusement parks and sands that fuel New Jersey’s tourism economy.” Toms River was hit hard by Hurricane Sandy. A nine-foot storm surge had inundated the town, damaging or destroying 10,000 homes. On Ortley Beach, a neighborhood out on the barrier island
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as anyone that if you thought climate change was a serious problem, you probably didn’t vote for Trump. Toms River, New Jersey. Damage from Hurricane Sandy, top, and after rebuilding, bottom. (Photo courtesy of Christopher J. Raia/Toms River Police Department) But it wasn’t just ideology. It was also money
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of New York spent $240 million to buy out 610 properties, mostly in a few neighborhoods on Staten Island that had been hard hit by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. In 2016, the US government spent $48 million to resettle twenty-three families who lived on Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana, which
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. “O Venice!”: From “Ode to Venice.” Collected in George Gordon Byron. Lord Byron: The Major Works (London: Oxford University Press, 2008), 301. Chapter 7 1. Hurricane Sandy: Storm damage statistics from personal communication with Office of Mayor Bill de Blasio. 2. East Side Coastal Resiliency Project: “OneNYC: 2016 Progress Report.” The City
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://www.citylab.com/work/2015/03/sorry-london-new-york-is-the-worlds-most-economically-powerful-city/386315/ 5. Manhattan in 1650: Snejana Farberov. “How Hurricane Sandy Flooded New York Back to Its Seventeenth-Century Shape as It Inundated 400 Years of Reclaimed Land.” Daily Mail, June 16, 2013. 6. $129 billion
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), 383–406. 8. Rebuild by Design competition: Rebuild by Design website. Accessed March 2, 2017. http://www.rebuildbydesign.org/our-work/exhibitions/rebuild by design-hurricane-sandy-design-competition-exhibition. See also Rory Stott. “OMA and BIG Among Six Winners in Rebuild by Design Competition.” ArchDaily, June 3, 2014. Accessed March 4
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/news/02052017/nyc-publishes-building-design-guidelines-adapting-climate-change 20. Broad Channel: Lisa L. Colangelo. “Queens Residents Still Struggle to Rebuild Homes Damaged by Hurricane Sandy Two Years Ago.” New York Daily News, October 26, 2014. 21. Army Corps of Engineers: “Atlantic Coast of New York, East Rockaway Inlet to Rockaway
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/pdf/RPA-Under-Water-How-Sea-Level-Rise-Threatens-the-Tri-State-Region.pdf 12. nine-foot storm surge: “Barnegat Bay Storm Surge Elevations During Hurricane Sandy.” The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, October 29, 2014, 14. Accessed March 2, 2017. http://www.nj.gov/dep/shoreprotection/docs/ibsp-barnegat-bay
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Lessons Lost: Jersey Shore Rebuilds in Sea’s Inevitable Path.” Inside Climate News, October 26, 2016. Accessed February 20, 2017. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25102016/hurricane-sandy-new-jersey-shore-rebuild-climate-change-rising-sea-chris-christie 20. $4.6 billion: State of New Jersey, Office of the State Comptroller. NJ Sandy
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
by Amitav Ghosh · 16 Jan 2018
of unprecedented heat, sudden landslides, raging torrents pouring down from breached glacial lakes, and, yes, freakish tornadoes. The superstorm that struck New York in 2012, Hurricane Sandy, was one such highly improbable phenomenon: the word unprecedented has perhaps never figured so often in the description of a weather event. In his fine
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study of Hurricane Sandy, the meteorologist Adam Sobel notes that the track of the storm, as it crashed into the east coast of the United States, was without precedent
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what had once been barrier islands, and that in the event of a major storm surge they would be swamped (as indeed they were when Hurricane Sandy hit the area in 2012). Yet it was clear also that these neighbourhoods had not sprung up haphazardly; the sanction of the state was evident
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and tsunami hazard assessment in the NW Indian Ocean.’ Soon, I also had to rethink my assumptions about cyclones and the Arabian Sea. Reading about Hurricane Sandy, I came upon more and more evidence that climate change may indeed alter patterns of cyclonic activity around the world: Adam Sobel’s Storm Surge
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, Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle, 10. 31 ‘“carry me with you!”’: Flaubert, Madame Bovary, 172–73. 33 recorded meteorological history: Adam Sobel, Storm Surge: Hurricane Sandy, Our Changing Climate, and Extreme Weather of the Past and Future (New York: HarperCollins, 2014), Kindle edition, locs. 91–105. 33 its impacts: Ibid., locs
Into the Raging Sea
by Rachel Slade · 4 Apr 2018 · 390pp · 109,438 words
got more fuel to convert to energy. We’ve already witnessed proof of this; several tropical cyclones have broken records in the past decade alone. Hurricane Sandy, which pounded the New Jersey and New York coasts in October 2012, was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, spanning eleven hundred miles. A year
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cracked ribs and a broken wrist. Robin later became known as the captain who took the replica of the HMS Bounty out to sea during Hurricane Sandy and died with the ship when she was swamped by the storm. Shipping out all the time made it difficult for Danielle to keep up
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of Alaska, and threatened to dump 150,000 gallons of diesel onto the coastline; to the sinking of the three-masted HMS Bounty, caught in Hurricane Sandy, that took the life of Robin Walbridge, the ship’s captain, and a crew member. Among the cases in the coast guard’s file, Neubauer
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
by Naomi Klein · 15 Sep 2014 · 829pp · 229,566 words
telethons. Media commentators speak of “compassion fatigue,” as if empathy, and not fossil fuels, was the finite resource. As if to prove the point, after Hurricane Sandy devastated large parts of New York and New Jersey, the Koch-backed organization Americans for Prosperity (AFP) launched a campaign to block the federal aid
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cohorts once peddled has given way to the reality of near total powerlessness and loss of control in the face of such spectacular forces as Hurricane Sandy and Typhoon Haiyan. Which is just one of the reasons climate change is so deeply frightening. Because to confront this crisis truthfully is to confront
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mega real estate development projects with dubious environmental benefits, as Hunter College urban affairs professor Tom Angotti and others have written. Communities heavily impacted by Hurricane Sandy, meanwhile, have claimed that Bloomberg’s post-disaster rebuilding plans were made with only token input from them. IV. Aided by investments like these, the
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York Times, January 11, 2013. 49. William Alden, “Around Goldman’s Headquarters, an Oasis of Electricity,” New York Times, November 2, 2012; “How FedEx Survived Hurricane Sandy,” KLTV, October 31, 2012; Kimi Yoshino, “Another Way the Rich Are Different: ‘Concierge-Level’ Fire Protection,” Los Angeles Times, October 26, 2007; P. Solomon Banda
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for Strategic and International Studies and Center for a New American Security, November 2007, p. 85. 53. Lee Fang, “David Koch Now Taking Aim at Hurricane Sandy Victims,” The Nation, December 22, 2012. 54. “230,000 Join Mail Call to Use Some of the UK’s £11billion Foreign Aid Budget to Tackle
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, “Life After Oil and Gas,” New York Times, March 23, 2013. 24. Personal interview with Nastaran Mohit, November 10, 2012. 25. Steve Kastenbaum, “Relief from Hurricane Sandy Slow for Some,” CNN, November 3, 2012. 26. Johnathan Mahler, “How the Coastline Became a Place to Put the Poor,” New York Times, December 3
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communication with Nastaran Mohit, March 28, 2014; Mohit interview, November 10, 2012. 28. Ibid.; FOOTNOTE: Greg B. Smith, “NYCHA Under Fire for Abandoning Tenants in Hurricane Sandy Aftermath,” New York Daily News, November 19, 2012. 29. Mohit interview, November 10, 2012. 30. Ibid. 31. Andrew P. Wilper et. al., “Health Insurance and
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