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119 text messaging and email into cities throughout India

Vikas Bajaj, ”Internet a.n.a.lysts Question India's Efforts to Stem Panic,” New York Times, August 21, 2012.

120 stronger cyclones (known as hurricanes in the U.S.) gain energy from warmer seas

Kerry Emanuel et al., ”Hurricanes and Global Warming: Results from Down-scaling IPCC AR4 Simulations,” American Meteorological Society 89 (March 2008): 34767.

121 magnified by storm surges that carry the ocean inland

Claudia Tebaldi et al., ”Modeling Sea Level Rise Impacts on Storms Surges Along US Coasts,” Environmental Research Letters 7 (2012).

122 New York City was put on emergency alert

James Barron, ”With Hurricane Irene Near, 370,000 in New York City Get Evacuation Order,” New York Times, August 26, 2011.

123 that can be closed to protect the city against such surges

Steve Connor, ”Sea Levels Rising Too Fast for Thames Barrier,” Independent, March 22, 2008.

124 cities with the highest population at risk from rising seas

Susan Hanson et al., ”A Global Ranking of Port Cities with High Exposure to Climate Extremes,” Climatic Change 104 (December 2010).

125 cities with the most exposed a.s.sets vulnerable to sea level rise

Ibid.

126 into areas from which they may once again become climate refugees

Dizery Salim, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, ”Climate Migrants Risk More Harm in New Surroundings,” 2012, /archive/28113.

127 are slowly sinking, in a kind of seesaw effect