hurricane sandy Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 14:51:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Climate Change Could be Responsible for Future New York City Flooding https://www.greenoptimistic.com/climate-change-responsible-future-new-york-city-flooding-20140429/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/climate-change-responsible-future-new-york-city-flooding-20140429/#respond Tue, 29 Apr 2014 14:51:46 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=47236 According to a recent study, more frequent flooding of New York City, as well as other coastal cities, may be attributable to climate change. Hurricane Sandy might be considered an extreme case, making landfall October 29, 2012, and cleanup efforts are ongoing. The rare combination of factors, including the timing of the storm surge with […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/climate-change-responsible-future-new-york-city-flooding-20140429/feed/ 0 47236 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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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/nyc-climate-change-flood-maps-20130612/feed/ 0 38325 Hurricane Sandy – Do Plug-In Vehicles Make Sense? https://www.greenoptimistic.com/hurricane-sandy-do-plug-in-vehicles-make-sense-20121106/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/hurricane-sandy-do-plug-in-vehicles-make-sense-20121106/#respond Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:04:56 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=27711 In the aftermath of superstorm Hurricane Sandy, hundred of thousands are still without power. One of the things some people fail to take into disaster preparation is having enough gasoline on hand. When the power goes out, so do the fuel pumps, and without a way to get the gasoline out of the in-ground tanks, […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/hurricane-sandy-do-plug-in-vehicles-make-sense-20121106/feed/ 0 27711 Did Global Warming Influence Hurricane Sandy? https://www.greenoptimistic.com/global-warming-hurricane-sandy-20121104/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/global-warming-hurricane-sandy-20121104/#comments Sun, 04 Nov 2012 11:14:12 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=27643 Hurricane Sandy took over the news with its devastating and destructive effect on New York City and the New Jersey coastline this week. The intensity and duration of the storm made many scientists engage in the controversial debate whether global warming had something to do with the event. LiveScince published an editorial piece on this […]

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