Climate change means more mosquito days, increasing Zika risk.
More than 180,000 people living in New Jersey are especially vulnerable to extreme heat.
New Jersey is the sixth-fastest warming state in the country, based on average annual temperatures since 1970.
In New Jersey, more than 300,000 people are living in areas at elevated risk of inland flooding.
According to the National Climate Assessment, the most extreme precipitation events have increased in every region of the contiguous states since the 1950s.
Climate change causing more nuisance flooding in New Jersey
Today, New Jersey has 352,000 people at risk of coastal flooding. By 2050, an additional 110,000 people are projected to be at risk due to sea level rise.
Atlantic hurricane season is seeing more major storms
Hoboken, N.J.
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The highest observed flood level at Atlantic City was 4ft above the local high tide line. At this flood level, more than $75 billion worth of property and 750 hazardous waste sites in the state are at risk of coastal flooding.
Hurricane Sandy, which was officially re-classified as a post-tropical storm shortly before landfall, caused heavy damage along the New Jersey shore, and caused the most extensive coastal flooding event in modern-day New York City... More
New research using GPS and prehistoric data has shown that nearly the entire coast is affected, from Massachusetts to Florida and parts of Maine... More
The threat isn't that sea level rise will gradually breach the defenses surrounding each airport. Instead, at least during the next few decades, scientists say that sea level rise will be more of an enabler of storm-surge flooding, making it easier for even minor storms to produce more damaging surges and flooding... More
The risk posed by future storms like Sandy is only going to increase due to climate change. The potential for stronger storms and rising seas mean Sandy-level flooding could could occur once every 23 years as opposed to once every 400... More