United Press International: Changing climate could make flooding from hurricanes and tropical storms far more common in low-lying coastal areas, a U.S. study suggests.
Researchers from Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said regions such as the New York City metropolitan area that have experienced a disastrous flood roughly every century could instead become submerged every one or two decades, a Princeton University release reported.
Writing in the journal Nature Climate Change, they said......
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Study: Climate change will up storm surges
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 23rd, 2012
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