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Two days before the Tribeca Film Festival kicks off with seven short films about the "global climate crisis," the Pacific Research Institute is hosting a screening, also in Tribeca, of "An Inconvenient Truth. "However, that said, certainly this is in keeping with some of the effects of climate change." "It's very difficult to connect any given instance with a global long-range phenomenon," the director of the Institute for Civil Infrastructure Systems at New York University's Wagner School of Public Service, Rae Zimmerman, said. The general population now has a greater sensitivity to the weather because of the debate about the climate, several experts said. Still, several climate experts, scientists, and policy advocates said that it was impossible to tie a single storm to a global climate phenomenon. The storms are staying longer, and they're more profound because of climate instability. "It's not unusual to have a storm happen that is a cold reversal of the warming from the winter," he said.
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"A number of locations have beat records for daily rainfall."Īn associate director of Harvard Medical School's Center for Health and the Global Environment, Paul Epstein, said it was the storm's intensity that made it stand out. "This is unusual to have a nor'easter this time of year," a meteorologist at the National Weather Service, John Murray, said. The previous record of 1.82 inches was set on April 15, 1906.
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About 5.5 inches of water had fallen in Central Park by late evening and more was expected throughout the night. More rain fell in New York yesterday than on any other April day since such things were measured. The members of the group that descended on Lower Manhattan called themselves the "Sea of People." Participants, wearing water-themed clothing and costumes, re-created what some scientists predicted would be the new permanent tide lines with a 10-foot sea-level rise. "Today, Bloomberg is issuing emergency flood warnings for Lower Manhattan." "There's something ironic about the fact that we were down on the Battery yesterday, forming a line to show where the new tide line will be in New York with rising sea levels," Bill McKibben, the founder of the group that organized the protests, Step It Up 2007, said. Mayor Bloomberg plans to unveil the city's environmental sustainability plan on April 22, Earth Day.
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The gusty winds and record rainfall came a day after a series of protests across the country to draw attention to the global warming debate, and a week before Vice President Gore opens the Tribeca Film Festival with seven short films about the environment.