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Hurricane Sandy: $8 bn in damage due to climate change

By AFP
May 19, 2021

Paris: More than eight billion dollars of the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy along the US northeast coast in 2012 can be blamed exclusively on manmade climate change, according a study released on Tuesday. Sea level rise caused by global warming was also responsible for an additional 36,000 homes being flooded, researchers reported in the journal Nature Communications.