There could be enough water in Boston for boats to float through parts of the Back Bay and fish to swim across the Public Garden if a super storm were to hit Boston years from now. That was a worst-case prediction displayed on color-coded maps in Faneuil Hall Sunday as part of a forum on the potential impact of climate change.
The maps detailing potential flooding, on stage as part of a “What If Sandy Happened Here?” forum, factored in rising sea levels and suggested that by 2050 a severe 100-year storm could also send floodwaters into Central Square and Harvard Square in Cambridge.
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Weather is not climate.
We need to remember the1938 hurricane, super storms have been hitting the Northeast US - since the 1600's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_New_England_hurricane
It's true: weather is not the same thing as climate. BUt logic and science tell us that changes in climate can cause changes in weather patterns.
http://news.discovery.com/earth/sandy-and-the-record-arctic-sea-ice-melt-121102.html
More to that point, unusual weather patterns are exactly what climate changes causes. Posting about one storm is as silly as the folks that would say "so much for global warming" on cold days. One instance is different from a pattern.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/05/us/climate-change/index.html
"“Sandy was a warning,” US Representative Edward Markey, a Malden Democrat long active in climate change legislation" ACTUALLY Ed Malarkey is REALLY saying, "Just as Rahm Emmanuel said "Never Let a Tragedy Go to Waste" This article is really a SHILL for MORE government spending, higher taxes, and more government regulation.
Cue the deniers in 3....2.....1.........
Tsynch beat you to it. Man, there's a lot of crazy out there.
Cue the alarmists in 3....2....1.......
it was not even a hurricane.
Sandy wasn't a hurricaine? You really need to stop getting your news from Breitbart.
http://nation.time.com/2012/11/26/hurricane-sandy-one-month-later/?iid=tsmodule
It was a catogory 1 hurricane...imagine if it was a 3 or higher? We are truly screwed.