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Damages totaled $65 billion in the United States and $68 billion overall, making Sandy the second-costliest Atlantic hurricane in recorded history, behind only Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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Along the Eastern Seaboard, waters will rise up to four feet — perhaps six feet — by the end of the century, making Sandy-like storm surges a frequent event.
"Climate change is making these sorts of storms more common, much as it is making Sandy-like superstorms and unusually intense hurricanes more common".
On The Nation's Web site, Mike Tidwell wrote about the variables that are making Sandys more likely, and more common: Oceans worldwide are projected to rise as much as three more feet this century — much higher if the Greenland ice sheet melts away.
But it was that trajectory that made Sandy so devastating.
"What made Sandy so different was that it was steered into the coast rather than away from it," said Elizabeth Barnes, a climate scientist at Colorado State University and an author of the study.
What is already clear, however, is that climate change very likely made Sandy's impacts worse than they otherwise would have been.
Scientists took to Twitter to share their opinions on how warming has made Sandy worse with Texas Tech University's Katharine Hayhoe tweeting that sea level is 7 inches higher now compared to 100 years ago and about 15percentt of the unusually warm sea surface temperatures fueling Sandy are a result of climate change.
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Climate shifts the probability distribution of such events, and so global warming may not have "caused" Sandy, but it makes Sandy-like storms more probable.
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