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The lessons of Superstorm Sandy
2013-10-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Living on Earth: It's been a year since Hurricane Sandy brought devastating floods to the east coast and destroyed many homes and businesses. Urban Planning Professor Elliott Sclar joins host Steve Curwood to discuss what lessons were learned from Hurricane Sandy about how to protect our coasts and cities in a warming world. Transcript CURWOOD: From the Jennifer and Ted Stanley Studios in Boston, this is Living on Earth. I'm Steve Curwood. Just a year ago Superstorm Sandy mowed a path of destruction from the...
One year after Sandy, New Jersey towns accelerate dune building, despite holdouts
2013-10-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: That stubby dune is now at the center of a major shift that stands to strengthen local officials against oceanfront homeowners who refuse to surrender thin strips of their beach property to the federal government for a much more ambitious program of dune construction. The change came in July, when the state Supreme Court reversed a lower court ruling that granted $375,000 to Harvey Cedars homeowners Harvey and Phyllis Karan after the town took a section of their beach through eminent domain. The...
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Flooding worse than Sandy could hit Jersey Shore because of sea-level rise
2013-10-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Asbury Park Press: Look for more extreme coastal flooding locally even worse than during superstorm Sandy in upcoming decades, a climate expert said Friday. Ocean and Monmouth counties are on the front lines of risk from sea level rise, from coastal storms and coastal flooding, said Ben Strauss, vice president for climate impacts and director of the Program on Sea Level Rise at Climate Central in Princeton. I think nationally, theyre among the hot spots at risk nationwide, Strauss said. I think sea...
Year After Sandy, Rebuilding for Storms and Rising Seas
2013-10-26 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: When the waters finally receded, Mantoloking, New Jersey, resembled a war zone. All 521 houses in the borough, a seaside enclave on a barrier island about halfway down the state's coast, had suffered damage. Sixty cottages had gone up in flames after natural gas lines ruptured. A week after Superstorm Sandy struck, when residents were finally bussed back to survey the damage, there was no power or running water. Massive piles of debris filled streets, yards, and patios. Boats from the local yacht...
Weather lessons from Superstorm Sandy
2013-10-26 05:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: It's the most infamous left turn in weather history. One year ago this weekend, as Hurricane Sandy roared up the East Coast, it was about to make its unprecedented turn to the west, heading for its ferocious and tragic landfall in New Jersey as a "Superstorm" on Oct. 29, 2012. How unprecedented? "We looked into the tracks of past hurricanes, and there's not a single track like Sandy," according to Peter Hoeppe, head of geo risks research with global insurance firm Munich Re. In fact, in...
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