New York City is sinking due to weight of its skyscrapers,
new research finds
The Big Apple may be the city that never sleeps but it is a city that certainly sinks, subsiding by approximately
1-2mm each year on average, with some areas of New York City plunging at double this rate, according to
researchers.
This sinking is exacerbating the impact of sea level rise which is accelerating at around twice the global average
as the world’s glaciers melt away and seawater expands due to global heating. The water that flanks New York
City has risen by about 9in, or 22cm, since 1950 and major flooding events from storms could be up to four times
more frequent than now by the end of the century due to the combination of sea level rise and hurricanes
strengthened by climate change.
“A deeply concentrated population of 8.4 million people faces varying degrees of hazard from inundation in
New York City,” researchers wrote in the new study, published in the Earth’s Future journal...
Seems to me that quite a few buildings can be leveled and turned into green spaces which would produce a carbon plus scenario. Someone just needs to pay for it.
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This is one of the many secret strategies of the newly appointed Rat Czar, aimed to slowly drown out all those pesky rodents.
Bums, however, will continue to sink into the subway system and harass innocents.
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Go Coogs' wrote: ↑Sat May 20, 2023 11:18 am
There was a NYT article (blocked by a paywall) that said there was enough empty office space in NYC to fill 26 Empire State Buildings.
Seems to me that quite a few buildings can be leveled and turned into green spaces which would produce a carbon plus scenario. Someone just needs to pay for it.
You could probably fit all the homeless in California, and all the immigrants in Florida and Texas and still have space left over. You might even get DeSantis to fly them all there.
Rack! This is by far your best post ever. Seriously.
“My dentist, that’s another beauty, my dentist, you kiddin’ me. It cost me five thousand dollars to have all new teeth put in. Now he tells me I need braces!” —Rodney Dangerfield
