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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSea level rises Norfolk Delaware and Louisiana and China
http://newamericamedia.org/2013/02/louisiana-coast-faces-highest-rate-of-sea-level-rise-worldwide.phphttp://www.delawareonline.com/article/20130226/NEWS08/302260049/Final-sea-level-session-held
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2013-02/27/content_16258964.htm
http://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2013/02/28/223994.htm
Sea Level rise its a fact
Louisiana has double the rate of sea rise
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Sea level rises Norfolk Delaware and Louisiana and China (Original Post)
lovuian
Feb 2013
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flying_wahini
(6,606 posts)1. Great articles that are hard to argue with. thanks.
n/t
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)2. I am from Norfolk..and flooding recently has been the worse!
Underpasses are impassable...the streets have water up over wheel wells in an auto...so SUV's will be needed just to drive to work on flooding days...
Now in Detroit..too many murders..saving to move to Florida...
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)3. The Louisiana coast has been receding for decades
besides global warming, the chief culprits are (surprise!) the oil industry, which dug hundreds if not thousands of miles of canals that became superhighways for saltwater intrusion, and the very levees that protect (most of the time) New Orleans and other cities along the Mississippi -- but at the cost of funneling all the silt that would normally replenish the wetlands out into the Gulf.
lovuian
(19,362 posts)4. what is amazing is the general public is so asleep
the delaware meetings had very few people show up
Al Gore was right