Carolinas need flexibility to counter continued sea-level rise
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Title:
Carolinas need flexibility to counter continued sea-level rise
Series Title:
The Post and Courier
Creator:
Pilkey, Orrin H.
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English

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Climate Change ( lcsh )
Sea Level Rise ( lcsh )
North Carolina ( lcsh )
South Carolina ( lcsh )

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The past 12 months have been a landmark as far as recognition of sea level rise is concerned. Last year, the 4th International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report came out and predicted a maximum two-foot rise in the sea level, not counting the disintegrating ice sheets, by the year 2100. The two-foot rise is mainly from thermal expansion of ocean water. There is widespread agreement among sea-level experts that the ice sheets are likely to be the driving forces of sea-level rise this coming century. The United Nations climate change conference, which met in Bali last December, also prominently addressed the rising sea (although the conference unfortunately assumed that sea-walling the world's shorelines would solve the problem). ( English )

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