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New York City Must Ready Itself For Global Warming

Climate change will bring quite a few changes to New York City, according to a new report from a panel lead by Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

The panel, formed by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to study the potential effects of global warming on the city, said that mean annual temperatures in New York could increase by up to 3 degrees and the average sea levels rise by 2 to 5 inches by the 2020s. By the 2080s, temperatures could increase by up to 7 ½ degrees, and sea levels could rise 12 to 23 inches by the end of the century, the panel said.

Recommendations on what exactly should be done concerning climate change will be coming from a second group investigating the problem.