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

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