Mapping the future of LI's shores

Newsday by Jennifer Smith | Mar. 8, 2009 (Special Report)

"This is the 2080s," Newkirk said, pointing to a map of what a sea-level increase of 12 to 23 inches - the moderate projections for that decade - could look like.

Blue flooded much of lower Mastic Beach. West Riviera Drive was underwater. So were the homes west of the William Floyd Estate, where the land was swamped halfway up to Neighborhood Road.

The images were arresting. Full Story »

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Topics: Global Warming, Climate Change
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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Mar 8, 2009 - 3:30 PM PDT
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