Sandy [allegedly] puts climate change back on the US election agenda | Environment | The Guardian
And sea-level rise in the north-eastern US is occurring three or four times faster than the global average, putting more Americans in harm's way. About 100 million Americans live in coastal areas within 3ft of mean sea level in cities such as Boston and Miami as well as New York.
As Mike Tidwell, the founder of Chesapeake Climate Action, wrote this week: "We are all from New Orleans now [are we?]. Climate change – through the measurable rise of sea levels and a documented increase in the intensity of Atlantic storms – has made 100 million Americans virtually as vulnerable to catastrophe as the victims of Hurricane Katrina were seven years ago."
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