Friday, March 18, 2016

Delaware, state with lowest mean elevation, knows that climate change is happening now


Source:  Netstate



Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control


Flat and sinking, Delaware’s coast battered by rising seas.  (Al Jazeera America, 10/15/2015)
Delaware, like other states on the mid-Atlantic coast, is on the front line of climate change in the U.S. Low-lying, flat and, since the loss of the last ice sheets, sinking, Delaware is vulnerable; its residents face a potent combination of rising seas, higher tides and more frequent storms that will erode and inundate the coastline.
Source:  Wikipedia

Related posts:
Norfolk, Virginia: Call it nuisance flooding or high-tide flooding or sunny day flooding, but most of all call it more likely to happen.  (2/23/2016)
Cherry Grove, South Carolina: Call it nuisance flooding or high-tide flooding or sunny day flooding, but most of all call it more likely to happen.  (2/23/2016)
Sunny-day flooding in Miami Beach: The everyday reality and the political denial.  (5/9/2014)

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