Talk:Climate change in New York City

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Your first source has no link, therefore I can't check if the info is there.

Is this article talking about New York State or New York City? I think you are talking abot the state, but you should clarify which one you are talking about. --Froggyloverfan (talk) 03:34, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

The lead now says "City" but the categories imply "state". Powers ^T 16:24, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

Just to be clear -- this article needs to have its scope defined. Is it talking about climate change in the state of New York, or in New York City? Powers ^T 20:12, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Looks like NYC to me--at least, that's how I interpreted it when I was chopping the article down to this stub. But really it seems like the article can be a stub for either topic. This might be a place to embrace ambiguity. If people add sections on NYC then it'll be a New York City article, and if people add sections on upstate then it'll be a New York State article. Gruntler (talk) 07:51, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Ambiguity is a bad thing in an encyclopedia. I agree the content tends toward New York City, but all of the other similar pages Category:Climate change in the United States by state are by state, and this one seems to have been created as a parallel to those. That the original author chose to focus on the city is not necessarily an explicit definition of the scope. Powers ^T 13:41, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Do as you wish, then. I will not put much more work into this article. Gruntler (talk) 20:52, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Sadly, the original author seems disinclined as well. Same with all the people who !voted "keep" in the AfD. Powers ^T 22:47, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

I have no clue which this article is about. Now that the AfD is over, though, I've changed my mind- there's too many of these articles floating around about specific states that could be condensed into a short paragraph in the main article. It's a pain for readers as well as contributors I guess... Do you think? Š¡nglî§h §Þëªk£r ♫ (talk) 00:24, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

I don't agree. At least some of the articles couldn't be condensed without loss of important information. For example, climate change in Washington and climate change in California both aren't easily merged. And in general, each region has its own unique infrastructure, its own ecology, and its own policy responses. Gruntler (talk) 06:22, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

I've moved the article to a title that reflects its actual focus on New York City. If someone wants to start a Climate change in New York article, feel free. But make sure there's something useful to say. Powers ^T 14:57, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

New Article from Rolling Stone

Jeff Goddell released a nice article today on the potential risks associated with climate change in New York City. I wanted to post on here first to see what everyone's thoughts were on possibly adding some of this material to the page. Here's one paragraph I found particularly relevant to this article:

• But in other ways, New York is surprisingly vulnerable. First, it's on an estuary. The Hudson River, which runs along the West Side of the city, needs an exit. So, unlike a harbor city such as Copenhagen, you can't just wall off the city from the rising ocean. Second, there are a lot of low areas in Brooklyn, Queens and, most important, Lower Manhattan, which has been enlarged by landfill over the years. (If you compare the map of damage from Sandy in 2012 with a map of Manhattan in 1650, you'll see they match pretty well – almost all the flooding occurred in landfill areas.) The amount of real estate at risk in New York is mind-boggling: 71,500 buildings worth more than $100 billion stand in high-risk flood zones today, with thousands more buildings at risk with each foot of sea-level rise. In addition, New York has a lot of industrial waterfront, where toxic materials and poor communities live in close proximity, as well as a huge amount of underground infrastructure – subways, tunnels, electrical systems. And because of changes in ocean dynamics, as well as the fact that the ground beneath the city is sinking as the continent recovers from the last ice age, seas are now rising about 50 percent faster in the New York area than the global average.

Let me know what you guys think! Comatmebro User talk:Comatmebro 22:46, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

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