Just what I wanted to read as I pack up to move north.
snips:
However much the oceans rise by the end of the century, add an extra 8 inches or so for New York, Boston and other spots along the coast from the mid-Atlantic to New England.
An extra 8 inches _ on top of a possible 2 or 3 feet of sea rise globally by 2100 _ is a big deal, especially when nor'easters and hurricanes hit, experts said.
Computer models forecast that as climate change continues, there will be a slowdown of the great ocean conveyor belt ... As the conveyor belt slows, so will the Gulf Stream and North Atlantic current. Those two fast-running currents have kept the Northeast's sea level unusually low because of a combination of physics and geography
New Englanders could be in the same "vulnerability situation" to storms and sea level rise as New Orleans.
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