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Study: Climate change added $8 billion to Superstorm Sandy damages
Updated May 18, 2021;
Posted May 18, 2021
FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013 file photo, a storm-damaged beachfront house is reflected in a pool of water in the Far Rockaways, in the Queens borough of New York.AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File
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Climate change-triggered sea level rise added $8 billion in damage during 2012′s Superstorm Sandy, one of nation’s costliest weather disasters, a new study said.
During Sandy a late fall freak combination of a hurricane and other storms that struck New York and surrounding areas the seas were almost 4 inches (9.6 centimeters) higher because of human-caused climate change, according to a study in Tuesday’s journal Nature Communications. Researchers calculated that those few inches caused 13% of Sandy’s overall $62.5 billion damage, flooding 36,000 more homes. Sandy killed 147 people, 72 in the eastern United States, according to the National Hurr
Climate Change s Impact On Hurricane Sandy Has A Price: $8 Billion
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When Hurricane Sandy swept up the eastern seaboard in 2012, it left a trail of damage from Florida to Maine. Subways were inundated in New York City. Hurricane-force winds tore across New Jersey. Blizzard conditions walloped Appalachia.
The hurricane â also known as Superstorm Sandy â caused an estimated $70 billion in damages in the U.S., mostly from flooding. And while scientists have long believed that some of the carnage was attributable to a warming climate, it s been unclear just how much of a role human-caused warming played in the storm s impacts. New research, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, puts a dollar amount on some of those damages and it s a startling figure.
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A rollercoaster that once sat on the Funtown Pier in Seaside Heights, N.J., rests in the ocean on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012 after the pier was washed away by superstorm Sandy. (Julio Cortez/AP)
When Hurricane Sandy swept up the eastern seaboard in 2012, it left a trail of damage from Florida to Maine. Subways were inundated in New York City. Hurricane-force winds tore across New Jersey. Blizzard conditions walloped Appalachia.
The hurricane also known as Superstorm Sandy caused an estimated $70 billion in damages in the U.S., mostly from flooding. And while scientists have long believed that some of the carnage was attributable to a warming climate, it’s been unclear just how much of a role human-caused warming played in the storm’s impacts. New research, published Tuesday in the journal
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