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In some of these impacts, New Jersey has been ahead of other places in feeling the effects [of climate change].
Columbia University professor Kim Knowlton, at a Rutgers University workshop on expected impacts of global climate change in New Jersey.
Among the serious anticipated risks of climate change in the Garden State are:
- more than 15 inches of sea level rise around Atlantic City in just the next 40 years
- more frequent inland and coastal flooding
- more hot days, including long stretches of 100-degree-plus days each summer
