A study published in the latest edition of Nature Geoscience, warns over the next few years, major eastern seaboard cities including New York, Boston, Baltimore and Washington DC may face an increase of coastal winter storms and hurricanes. According to the article “slowdown in Atlantic Ocean currents may cause sea levels along the U.S. coast to rise twice as fast as the global average, exposing New York and other big cities to violent and frequent storm surges”. By use of state-of-the-art computer models, the study found the drastic change in ocean currents is being caused by the rapid increase of climate changes affecting our planet.

From CosmosMagazine.com

"They found that sea levels in the North Atlantic adjusted in all cases to the projected slowing of the Gulf Stream and its northward extension, the North Atlantic Current."

"This will lead to the rapid sea level rise on the Northeast coast of the United States," said Yin.

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