Kerry Says Climate Change May Flood Lower Manhattan by 2100
- Nations must speed move away fossil fuels, Kerry said
- Secretary of State spoke at Bloomberg clean energy summit
John Kerry: Need to Move to Low Carbon Energy
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned that rising seas could devastate coastal cities including New York if nations do not aggressively adopt renewable energy to reverse the damage fossil fuels are inflicting on the environment.
The past two decades have been the hottest on record, Kerry told a conference of energy executives. If greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated, he said, the total rise of the sea could reach five or six feet by the year 2100. That would wipe out a big swath of the biggest U.S. city, including the street where Thomas Edison first generated electricity.