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March 1, 2021 9 a.m.
Ning Lin
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Ning Lin denies she predicted Hurricane Sandy, the massive storm that made landfall in New York City in October 2012, causing widespread coastal flooding and wind damage.
“When people say that, I correct them,” Lin said. “I don’t predict specific events, I predict probabilities. The probability of New York City being hit by strong storms and flooding was higher than most people expected.”
But the timing was uncanny. Just months earlier, while a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Lin co-authored a study projecting that climate change would drive significant coastal flooding on a frequency of once a decade rather than once a century. New York City, the authors said, was highly vulnerable.
However, new research co-authored by Princeton University shows that migration to the coast could actually accelerate in some places despite sea-level change, contradicting current assumptions.
The research, published in Environmental Research Letters, uses a more complex behavioral decision-making model to look at Bangladesh, whose coastal zone is at high risk. They found job opportunities are most abundant in coastal cities across Bangladesh, attracting more people whose agricultural income opportunities decline in other parts of the country. Meanwhile, the populations already living along the coast tend to stay, as floods increase their losses but few better alternatives are present elsewhere.
“We tend to think that rising sea levels will drive people away from the coasts, but here we show a plausible story where they don’t,” said lead author Andrew R. Bell, assistant professor of environmental studies at New York University.