NYC seariseWe can keep debating global climate change (it’s real!) until the last polar bear takes its final gasping breath. But let’s never forget that this seaside city is in imminent dangera new study confirms New York’s temperatures are skyrocketing, sea levels are rising, and we’re in for one hell of a grim ride.

The Mayor’s Office has just released this year’s incredibly bleak New York City Panel on Climate Change report today, noting that their findings “underscore the urgency of not only mitigating our contributions to climate change, but adapting our city to its risks.” Not that this should be surprising at this point. Here are some fun things to look forward to, according to the report:

Mean annual temperatures are expected to shoot up by 4.1 to 5.7 degrees Fahrenheit by the 2050s. By the 2080s, those mean annual temperatures could increase by as much as 8.8 degrees Fahrenheit. For comparison’s sake, mean annual temperature increased a total of 3.4 degrees Fahrenheit from 1900 to 2013, […]

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