Study: Climate change increased Superstorm Sandy damage by $

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Rising sea levels caused by climate change added $8 billion to cost of damages from Superstorm Sandy in 2012, according to new research published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications.
Researchers determined that human-caused climate change had led to a nearly 4-inch rise in sea levels, which contributed to 13 percent of the $62.5 billion in damages caused by the storm.
They estimated that the sea level rise resulted in up to 71,000 more people and 36,000 more housing units being exposed to flooding in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York.
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“The potential influence of climate change on the storm itself has been debated, but sea level rise driven by anthropogenic climate change more clearly contributed to damages,” the study states. “To quantify this effect, here we simulate water levels and damage both as they occurred and as they would have occurred across a range of lower sea levels corresponding to different estimates of attributable sea level rise.”

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