New York City Ponders Possibly Catastrophic Climate Changes

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New York City Ponders Possibly Catastrophic Climate Changes

NEW YORK (AP) -- Flooded subways. Bridges deteriorating in the hot sun. Rising seas nipping at the edges of Manhattan. Those scenarios are up for review by a panel of scientists, government officials and private sector representatives studying how the city's infrastructure will hold up to climate change.

The Climate Change Adaptation Task Force met Tuesday for the first time as part of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plan to address global warming in New York City, which already includes orders to switch the city's taxi fleet to hybrids by 2012 and to retrofit city buildings to meet greener standards.

Experts on the panel said the potential consequences of global warming could include more frequent storms, flooding throughout the city's coastal and lowland areas, repeated blackouts on a power grid stressed to its limits and bridges that deteriorate under the heat.

"We have to adapt to the environmental changes that have already taken place, or that we can reasonably expect will occur because of climate change," Bloomberg said....>

http://www.livescience.com/environment/080813-ap-ny-climate.html

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1. They just had a tornado warning there yesterday.

Did it occur, New Yorkers? Are you all okay??

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2. NYC Holds Largest Ever Counterterror Exercise

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/nyc.counterterror.exercise.2.796595.html


Seems like a lot of preparing going on in NYC.