Move inland

That's what Sandy and most climate scientists are telling us.  A few years ago the UN panel on climate change projected that seas would rise 2mm a year.  The latest study says they are already rising 3.2mm a year. Sandy had a 9ft storm surge at Battery Park in New York City and we saw what that did.  Estimates are that each additional foot of water puts up to 100,000 NYC residents at risk.  But NYC is not the only risky place.  More than half of us live less than a meter above the high tide point.  The NY Times has a series of fascinating charts showing what would happen to some major cities as sea levels rise at various levels.

And then, of course, we have the melting of the Arctic.