Warming Planet May Double Odds of New York Flooding, Study Says
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New York’s odds of being flooded by a one-two punch of extreme rain and surging seas have more than doubled in the past 80 years, a change scientists say may be linked to global warming.
The number of so-called compound flooding events -- combining heavy precipitation and a high storm surge -- have “increased significantly” for much of the coastal U.S., affecting cities from New York and San Francisco to Boston and Galveston, Texas, researchers said in a paper published Monday by the journal Nature Climate Change.