Is New York About To Drown?

Analyzing 90 years of predictions that New York is about to drown.

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3 Responses to Is New York About To Drown?

  1. Bob G says:

    I think I’ve mentioned this before… something I learned only a few years ago… and to my surprise Manhattan Island has increased in size since the white man first laid eyes on it. how can that be if sea level is rising? it’s called reclamation. create more valuable land, it’s like printing money. some estimates say that up to 29% of Manhattan Island has been reclaimed from the harbor over the past 500 years. from wiki: “It is estimated that by the 1970s, 1400 to 2225 acres of the entire Manhattan landmass, has been created by reclamation.[4] Another estimate is that 3,000 acres, or 29% of the entire land area, had been created by reclamation.[9]”

  2. Robertvd says:

    The question is if it would be preferable to have an Ice sheet a mile high close to the city and the ocean one hundred miles away as it would have been during the last Glacial Maximum not that long ago.

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