re: #280 lawhawk

NYC and Long Island would look a whole lot difference, even with a 3-4 foot change in sea level. And that doesn’t account for storm surges during hurricanes, which would push levels even higher.

While I’m safe where I am in Northern NJ (90-100 feet above sea level), much of Long Island south of Merrick Road would be lost to the Atlantic, as would a significant portion of Lower Manhattan, and coastal New Jersey (including Jersey City, Hoboken, etc., and Connecticut.

The higher sea levels would also potentially affect inland areas by modifying the weather and climate there.

Pretty disheartening when old pundits like Will and Krauthammer dismiss global warming out of hand. For fuck’s sake, Krauthammer is an M.D., but on global warming he talks like a guy who never heard of the scientific method.

Either way, when very old political commentators tells you not to worry about AGW, you have to take it with a grain of salt. In addition to their scientific blinders, neither Will nor Krauthammer is particularly good at math (witness their predictions of huge Romney landslides in 2012). Still, both guys know their own ages and can do simple arithmetic. It’s very easy to ignore a long term problem when you know you’ve probably only got 10-20 years max left on the planet.