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New York City Prepares for Higher Temperatures, Rising Sea Levels
ens-newswire.com - 2/20/2009
New York City Prepares for Higher Temperatures, Rising Sea Levels
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Environment News Service: As a low-lying coastal city, New York will face higher temperatures and more rapidly rising sea levels, as well as more frequent and intense extreme weather events - like heat waves, heavy rainstorms, and coastal flooding - over the course of the century as a result of ...

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New York City preparing for climate change
supereco.com - 2/20/2009
New York City preparing for climate change
— supereco.com — We already knew that Venice is sinking, and has been, but New York? Maybe, yes. Scientists have been scrambling to get a solid handle on just how global climate change is going to play out on the planet over the next few decades, and while there's yet to be a true consensus, the ... (more) New York City preparing for climate change

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greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com - 2/26/2009
Lawsuit Seeks to Force Disclosure of Cleaning Product Ingredients
— greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com — Several companies, the complaint argues, Earthjustice have ignored a New York State law passed in the early 1970s that governs the disclosure of household cleaning product ingredients. (more) Lawsuit Seeks to Force Disclosure of Cleaning Product ...

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Is the New York Times coverage of global warming fatally flawed?
climateprogress.org - 2/24/2009
Is the New York Times coverage of global warming fatally flawed?
— climateprogress.org — Two dreadful, tunnel-vision articles in the New York Times suggest the “paper of record” must rethink how it covers the most important issue of our time. Yes, the NYT has the biggest climate team and the best climate reporter in the ... (more) Is the New York Times coverage of global warming fatally ...

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New York City preparing for climate change
Super Eco News Feed — ... A new report released earlier this week by Mayor Michael Bloomberg was based on projections developed by projections specific to New York City that were developed by the New York City Panel on Climate Change, a group consisting of climate change scientists, academics, and private sector practitioners. The city has formed a Climate Change Adaptation Task Force that plans to make necessary adaptations to the city's infrastructure—like moving key electrical equipment to higher ground—sooner rather than awaiting a critical disaster. ...

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