If New York City is ready for flood

            Hi, good evening, my name is Junmin Li, and my friends usually call me Vince.

In this blog I am responding to an assignment in my ENG 101 composition class on climate change. The assignment asked me to read an article and summarize both the author’s main points and readers’ comment.  In this blog I will discuss if New York City have prepared for the climate change.

            According to Mireya Navarro in her article “New York Is Lagging as Seas and Risks Rise, Critics Warn” published in The New York Times (September 10, 2012), New York City is so weak in preparing for the climate change.  Navarro notes that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg thought the rising of the sea level was low, so they did not think it was urgent, and New York City was not in danger.  In addition, because of New York City’s own situation, it was difficult to do its protection of flood.  It would cost a lot of money, and it might affect aquatic ecosystems.  Moreover, it might still fail to stop the floods even if they made it.  However, Navarro emphasizes that it was very necessary for New York City to build its barriers.  Since the increasing use of the global gases, the sea level was rising much fast, and the storms and the hurricanes were becoming stronger and stronger.  Furthermore, its subway system was so weak, and it was once almost flooded. 

            The first reader said that he was on the train when it was flooded.  The train had to stop and drive them to another safe place.  That was an unpredictable incidence.