Credit: Johns Hopkins University

Hurricane Sandy left Lower Manhattan completely dark, eerily bereft of the electricity that keeps New York City buzzing 24 hours a day. Across town, 34,000 people living in the Rockaways, an exposed spit of land that acts as a barrier island, were left without power for weeks when the storm hit in October 2012.

On the heels of that devastation comes a new study that says New York City is among the cities most sensitive to increasing hurricane intensity, making it more likely that major hurricanes will cut off power to even more people, fueled in large part by climate change.

In a Johns Hopkins University study published this week in the journal Climatic Change, researchers used a computer model to show how power grids in coastal cities are likely to see more power outages from hurricanes in the coming decades. Climate change is expected to make hurricanes increasingly intense and damaging as the atmosphere […]