Google Podcasts - Science Friday - Degrees Of Change: Sea Level Rise, Coal-Use Decline. May 17,...

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel thank you my friend, I had no clue: wow...smh. However I bookmark the link and will read in depth on this read/share. Good information in my neck of the wood my friend in the Great State of Kansas.

Meanwhile, less than 100 miles up the coast from the Albemarle-Pamlico peninsula, the cities of Hampton Roads, Virginia along the Chesapeake Bay are facing some of the worst flooding due to sea level rise in the country. In Norfolk, home of the United States Navy, tides have increased as much as eight inches since the 1970s, and roads that lead from the community directly to naval installations are particularly vulnerable to flooding.

But in the last 10 years, Hampton Roads has begun to adapt. “When we first started having these discussions, there was a lot of concern about, should we be having discussions like this in public. What would be the potential impacts on economic development or on the population growth here?” said Ben McFarlane, senior regional planner with the Hampton Roads Planning District Commission. “Now it’s recognized and people know it’s happening. I think the strategy has changed to being more of a ‘Let’s stop talking about how bad it is and how bad it’s going to get. And let’s start talking about solutions.’”


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Thank you, my friend PO1 William "Chip" Nagel for posting.
The Hurricane season, each year brings amazing amounts of salt water into the east coast from Florida to Virginia. It seems that erosion, periodic flooding and road damage generates requirements for road work. A greater threat would be damage to bridges such as the Chesapeake Bay bridge.

As far as coastal Virginia, "Agricultural irrigation and wastewater ditches that criss-cross much of the Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula facilitate the flow of saltwater intrusion deep into the landscape, wreaking ecological and economic havoc."
On the generally flat Virginia Peninsula n southeast Virginia, bounded by the York River, James River, Hampton Roads and Chesapeake Bay, the risk of flooding is a periodic reality.
"In Norfolk, home of the United States Navy, tides have increased as much as eight inches since the 1970s, and roads that lead from the community directly to naval installations are particularly vulnerable to flooding."
I am familiar with the dock area and had to chuckle at some of the hyperbole about Norfolk Naval Base.

I was interested in the following:
The latest investment report from the International Energy Agency was released this week, and shows that in 2018, final investment decisions were made to support bringing an additional 22GW of coal-fired electric generation online—but in the same year, around 30 GW of coal-burning generating capacity were closed. Of course, coal plants are still under construction, and there are thousands of terawatts of coal-generating capacity worldwide, so the end of coal is nowhere in sight yet

Thank you, my friend SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL for mentioning me.

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