Al Gore’s did much to raise awareness of climate change with his film An Inconvenient Truth –which obviously explains the relentless war on the film and attempts at character assassination.
In a scene that now seems eerily prescient he demonstrates how rising sea levels and storm surges would impact different parts of the globe.
At one point the film shows the flooding of the WTC memorial site (go to 2:20 of clip):
When Hurricane Sandy hit New York, water poured into the WTC memorial site:
Today NYC stand battered, flooded and reported deaths at around 39.
Video of National Guard searching for residents in New Jersey, note the scale of the devestation:
A house is destroyed by the force of the storm:
Raw video footage of flooding:
not many hits yet but can see this going viral by tomorrow
only six years after the doco, bet even Fat Al did not believe that this could have happened so quickly
another harbinger
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090315155112.htm
Indeed…
=”http://www.psmsl.org/data/obtaining/stations/12.php”>What sea level rise has New York seen? Oh,look at that….
What the html is going on?
…anyway,about 30cm since 1860.
….more like 45cm since 1860. Similar trends per decade at other stations in the area with shorter records.
6700mm to 7200mm and accelerating
good find eric
oops good find nick