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Manhattan -- After Sea Levels Rise

Topic Categories: Global Warming • NYC life
Posted on: January 25, 2007 8:59 AM, by "GrrlScientist"

Image: Photo illustration by John Blackford; original photograph by Cameron Davidson.

A good argument for building UP instead of OUT: It looks like a lot of people will be going to work via water taxis in the future.

tags: Manhattan, global warming,sea level

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And the name should be changed to New Venice! I like it!!

Posted by: Carolyn Hoffman | January 25, 2007 9:40 AM

I hope your apartment in NYC is on a high floor. My old place would be completely submerged.

Posted by: JPS | January 25, 2007 9:52 AM

I would think there would be greater concern for what Manhattan would do to the ocean water than the other way around. The rise would be terribly gradual, after all.

Posted by: brian | January 25, 2007 10:21 AM

Where is the Intrepid? It should be floating above the water.

(The Intrepid is the decommissioned aircraft carrier that's now a mueseam and anchored on the end of NYC).

Posted by: Rio | January 25, 2007 11:52 AM

IPCC tar esitmates ~ 88 cm by 2100 . That pic looks like about 6m - which won't come until GIS melts.

What with all the recent discoveries on the fluid dynamics of melting glaciers, it's unknown how long it will take GIS to melt - maybe hundreds of years, maybe thousands.

Posted by: llewelly | January 25, 2007 12:50 PM

Fortunately, Morningside Heights is easily high enough above sea level to stay above water. Unfortunately, it might become an island.

Posted by: Alon Levy | January 25, 2007 5:36 PM