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The effects of climate change on New York City given extreme weather patterns

The effects of climate change on New York City given extreme weather patterns Pricila Castillo and Almira Duka. Introduction. Methods. Results.

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The effects of climate change on New York City given extreme weather patterns

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  1. The effects of climate change on New York City given extreme weather patterns Pricila Castillo and AlmiraDuka Introduction Methods Results As the effects of global warming are slowly but surely affecting every country on the Earth, some of these effects have a high risk factor of causing complete destruction to the landmasses where dense populations are found including New York City. The concept of global warming, although debatable of what is actually is, is evident enough not to be ignored. Global occurrences such as the acceleration of the melting of the ice caps, the transgression and regression of the sea level and temperature increase are constantly being argued if whether or not humans are truly at fault for this climate change. Compared to past records, these statistics are not corresponding to what the planet has adapted to as “normal.” Some make the valid interpretation that in the Earth’s history, there have been times where Earth wasn’t homogeneous. With time and adaption, the Earth began to change and balanced its gas levels to a normal rate. This raises the question: Is the Earth going through another one of it’s phases or are we doing this to ourselves? Satellite image of Superstorm Sandy Conclusions (Gornits, Couch & Hartig, 2002) Abstract Within the past few years, New York City has experienced bizarre incidents of extreme weather. The argument remains, however, whether these extremes are directly related to climate change or simply isolated incidents. To come closer to understanding, use of the Wilcoxon Rank-sum test will distinguish statistical correlations between previous temperature, sea level, and carbon level data, which will then be compared to an increased frequency of extreme weather patterns. References Gornits, V., Couch, S., & Hartig, E. K. (2002). Impacts of sea level rise in the new york city metropolitan area. Global and Planetary Changes, 32, 61-88. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (n.d.). National climatic data center Acknowledgements: Professor Alan Benimoff ("National climatic data," )

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