[1583] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Future students to swim to class...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard J. Barbalace)
Wed Feb 16 00:16:51 2005
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:59:04 -0500
From: "Richard J. Barbalace" <rjbarbal@MIT.EDU>
To: MIT-Talk@MIT.EDU
>From today's Globe:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/02/15/study_predicts_city_flood_threat_due_to_warming/
Quote:
By the end of this century, global warming threatens to raise the sea
level enough that a heavy storm would send flood waters into Boston's
downtown waterfront, the Financial District, and much of the Back Bay,
based on projections in a federally funded report to be released
today.
The five-year study, commissioned by the US Environmental Protection
Agency and completed by university researchers, indicates that the
mildest impact of global warming would leave local landmarks such as
Massachusetts General Hospital, the Public Garden, the Esplanade, and
MIT in a pool of water after a strong storm surge in the harbor.
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