flood Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:06:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Climate Change Forces FEMA to Update Flood Maps for NYC https://www.greenoptimistic.com/nyc-climate-change-flood-maps-20130612/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/nyc-climate-change-flood-maps-20130612/#respond Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:06:40 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=38325 We’ve gotten away from the misnomer Global Warming lately. Climate Change is probably the best way to describe the situation globally. The problem with the term global warming is trying to justify worst winter storm with warming. Really, the occurrence of extreme weather conditions, whether winter storms, summer heat waves, hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding or droughts, […]

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