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CLIMATE IMPACTS

Climate Change Added $8 Billion to Hurricane Sandy’s Damage

New research shows how much warming is costing society by exacerbating disasters

ANDREA THOMPSON / SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN – As Hurricane Sandy bore down on the New York City area in 2012, its storm surge swamped lower Manhattan, unmoored a roller coaster on the Jersey Shore, submerged runways at LaGuardia Airport and pushed the toxic waters of Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal into nearby basements. All told, the storm’s floodwaters did more than $60 billion in property damage in New York State, New Jersey and Connecticut. Though scientists have long known global warming is exacerbating such events by raising sea levels, a new study has now calculated just how much of Sandy’s bill can be charged to climate change: about $8 billion …

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