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New York 2140: A novelist's vision of a drowned city that still never sleeps

  • Written by Robert Kopp, Professor, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, and Director, Coastal Climate Risk & Resilience Initiative, Rutgers University
imageClimate fiction: A novel describes New Yorkers keeping on even after 50 feet of sea-level rise next century.www.shutterstock.com

Earth’s climate system is replete with potential surprises, and the climate science community tends to be conservative when projecting future changes. The world also suffers from a creative deficit in imagining the...

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