In Norfolk, evidence of climate change is in the streets at high tide
NORFOLK — At high tide on the small inlet next to Norfolk’s most prestigious art museum, the water lapped at the very top of the concrete sea wall that has held it back for 100 years. It seeped up through storm drains, puddled on the promenade and spread, half a foot deep, across the street, where a sign read, “Road Closed.”
The sun was shining, but all around the inlet people were bracing for more serious flooding. The Chrysler Museum of Art had just completed a $24 million renovation that emptied the basement, now accessible only by ladder, and lifted the heating and air-conditioning systems to the top floor. A local accounting firm stood behind a homemade barricade of stanchions and detachable flaps rigged to keep the water out. And the congregation of the Unitarian Church of Norfolk was looking to evacuate.
“We don’t like being the poster child for climate change,” said the Rev. Jennifer Slade, who added that the building, with its carved-wood sanctuary and soaring flood-insurance rates, would soon be on the market for the first time in four decades. “I don’t know many churches that have to put the tide chart on their Web site” so people know whether they can get to church.
On May 6, the Obama administration released the third National Climate Assessment, and President Obama proclaimed climate change no longer a theory; its effects, he said, are already here. This came as no surprise in Norfolk, where normal tides have risen 11 / 2 feet over the past century and the sea is rising faster than anywhere else on the East Coast.
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and Olde Town is so much more prone to flooding now than in the past. 
how long before a ban is put on climatologists and meteorologists from speaking to media about climate change as they have done in Canada?
Because everyone knows that if you quit talking about it it will go away! 
It happened on the Gulf Coast where some very expensive vacation homes disappeared when a hurricane storm surge passed over them and left only sand behind about 10 years ago. This is the fate waiting to happen to much of Florida ocean front from Cocoa Beach to Miami to Clearwater inthe next centrury. Sad but true.
Heard a talk last year by a geologist who works for NASA on Merritt Island where the space port is and he predicted that sometime in the next 50 to 100 years the barrier Islands there would be overrun in a big storm surge and disappear - that would be Cocoa Beach and the Cape.
For me personally it means the beaches I grew up on - playing with my family will be gone but it is a much larger disaster for folks with property on a barrier Island. My sister inlaw is grew up in Cocoa beach in a wonderful home between the Beach and the Inland waterway. It would not be practical to plan to leave it to her children. I live inland on a fairly high former sand dune, but millions live in the zone that will be inundated.
Of course if you take the long view South Florida as it is today is only 10 thousand years old. And going back a little further, 30 million years ago Florida was an island inhabited by Lemurs - until the comet hit Greenland and wiped them out - allowing for guess who to evolve to their present day state of glory and stupidity. 
--put a big whammy on this area:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay_impact_crater
The Chesapeake Bay impact crater[1] was formed by a bolide that impacted the eastern shore of North America about 35 million years ago, in the late Eocene epoch. It is one of the best-preserved "wet-target" or marine impact craters, and the largest known impact crater in the U.S. Continued slumping of sediments over the rubble of the crater has helped shape the Chesapeake Bay.
Formation and Aftermath
During the warm, late Eocene, sea levels were high, and the Tidewater region of Virginia lay in the coastal shallows. The shore of eastern North America, about where Richmond, Virginia, is today, was covered with dense tropical rainforest, and the waters of the gently sloping continental shelf were rich with marine life that was depositing dense layers of lime from their microscopic shells.
Boundaries of the crater
The bolide impacted at a speed of many kilometers per second, punching a deep hole through the sediments and into the granite continental basement rock. The bolide itself was completely vaporized, with the basement rock being fractured to depths of 8 km (5.0 mi), and a peak ring being raised around it. The deep crater, 38 km (24 mi) across, is surrounded by a flat-floored terrace-like ring trough with an outer edge of collapsed blocks forming ring faults. The entire circular crater is about 85 km (53 mi) in diameter and 1.3 km (0.81 mi) deep, an area twice the size of Rhode Island, and nearly as deep as the Grand Canyon. Numerical modeling techniques by Collins, et al. indicate that the post-impact diameter was likely to have been 40 km (25 mi), rather than the observed 85 km (53 mi).[2]
The surrounding region suffered massive devastation. USGS scientist David Powars, one of the impact crater's discoverers, has described the immediate aftermath: "Within minutes, millions of tons of water, sediment, and shattered rock were cast high into the atmosphere for hundreds of miles along the East Coast." An enormous seismic tsunami engulfed the land and possibly even overtopped the Blue Ridge Mountains[citation needed]. The sedimentary walls of the crater progressively slumped in, widened the crater, and formed a layer of huge blocks on the floor of the ring-like trough. The slump blocks were then covered with the rubble or breccia. The entire bolide event, from initial impact to the termination of breccia deposition, lasted only a few hours or days. In the perspective of geological time, the 1.2 km (0.75 mi) breccia is an instantaneous deposit. The crater was then buried by additional sedimentary beds that have accumulated during the 35 million years following the impact.
Another article at:
http://www.virginiaplaces.org/geology/bolide.html
Sunset Beach, California, where I spent much of my childhood. It is surround by the Pacific Ocean on one side and the Huntington Harbor on the other. During extreme high tides, sometimes referred to as "king tides", the water will cover the town and lap over the Pacific Coast Highway. Any increase in that threat can't be good for their future.
Marco Rubbio told me it's not real
global warming? rising sea levels? Nah!! LW conspiracy. 
(I have relatives there)
"Nawfik" IS how they say it (with an "i"
there goes Virginia Beach as well. I live about 10 miles from the ocean. I'm sure that by mid to late century, my house will be at or very near the beach. I always wanted to have beach front property!
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Without your donations to the corporate power structure, we might be forced to address this in reality. Luckily all that money will keep the deniers well fed and the propaganda flowing like wine. 
