Rising sea level redefines N.C. coast
“In North Carolina, global warming isn’t a future worry. It’s already lapping ashore.
Nags Head Mayor Renee Cahoon sees all the proof of climate change she needs at the end of Old Oregon Inlet Road. The street once led to rows of oceanfront houses. Now it ends suddenly in bulldozed piles of sand.
Some beach erosion occurs naturally, and development near the ocean tends to make it worse. But some scientists think erosion has grown more pronounced in recent years as the sea level has risen and storms increased. On some days, stretches of Nags Head have no dry beach, and visitors have to sit under the front-row houses at high tide. The resort that once thrived by the sea is being swallowed by it.”
And all of those gorgeous trees in North Dakota… they are literally drowning in salt water. The fresh water swamps are slowly becoming salt water marshes. Who knows what North Dakota will look like in a few years, if we don’t get a handle on things :(
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