RESEARCH QUESTION: “What are different approaches to New York City’s resiliency regarding rising sea levels in the era of Anthropocene with consideration of Donald Trump’s tweet about  “sea wall” from January 18th, 2020?”

ANNOTATION OF NEW SOURCE:  I just found this source and didn’t have a chance to really dig inside. Hopefully it has some useful information. This would raise a bunch of perspectives. Hopefully. Raise the focus from New York city to global resiliency. I’m not sure if I should stay solely focused on NYC. Not in MLA format:

“Global and Regional Sea Level Rise Scenarios for United States”.  NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. January, 2017.

https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/publications/techrpt83_Global_and_Regional_SLR_Scenarios_for_the_US_final.pdf

WORKING THESIS: Trumps tweet leave us all but wonder: on what level this influences us in real way? How is it possible that  the study of many years with $19 million dollars involved gets “indifinitely suspended”? Is there any connection? What plan do we have now? The different approaches to NYC resiliency are my lenses applied to the tweet. There are some points when they back him up and some others when his words seem questionable.

ANYTHING ELSE: In the end of an essay I’d shift a question from my focus being on New York City to the whole country perspective. The aforementioned source would help me with this. The problem is not only with NYC, the same problem applies to all of the coastal cities in America. In the light of this report how the words of President of our country sound? He is just talking about rare storms but what about inevitable problems coming in the future which apply to the whole country? It’s not only about “rare storms”, it’s about getting ready for long term changes. Is he going to act? How is he going to act? Do we need to wait for the tweet?

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