CITY MAY LOSE TURF TO SURF

Global warming could raise the world’s ocean levels twice as high this century as previously predicted, a study suggests - putting large swaths of the Big Apple at risk of becoming the Sunken Apple. Based on research of how the Earth looked the last time it got this hot about 100,000 years ago, scientists say in next month’s issue of the journal Nature Geoscience that water levels could rise a staggering 64 inches in the next 50 to 100 years.

That would put the areas of the city - from lower Manhattan to Coney Island - most at risk of coastal flooding in serious jeopardy.

By SAMUEL GOLDSMITH and Post Wire Services

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