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NYC_flooding_2New projections from the National Weather Service and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers predict that if <a href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/carbon/" target="_blank">carbon emissions</a> aren't rapidly reduced and climate change continues on its current pace, a <a href="http://inhabitat.com/nyc/tag/hurricane-sandy">Sandy</a>-like storm in the year 2100 would leave coastal areas of Manhattan, Brooklyn and other boroughs completely underwater. New York would be more vulnerable to future hurricanes because, as a <a href="http://inhabitat.com/un-climate-panel-cites-95-percent-certainty-that-humans-are-responsible-for-global-warming/" target="_blank">draft report</a> from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows, sea levels could rise by as much as six feet by the end of the century.1
New York UnderwaterNew projections from the National Weather Service and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers predict that if <a href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/carbon/" target="_blank">carbon emissions</a> aren't rapidly reduced and climate change continues on its current pace, a <a href="http://inhabitat.com/nyc/tag/hurricane-sandy">Sandy</a>-like storm in the year 2100 would leave coastal areas of Manhattan, Brooklyn and other boroughs completely underwater. New York would be more vulnerable to future hurricanes because, as a <a href="http://inhabitat.com/un-climate-panel-cites-95-percent-certainty-that-humans-are-responsible-for-global-warming/" target="_blank">draft report</a> from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows, sea levels could rise by as much as six feet by the end of the century.2
