Posted on May 22, 2018
Norfolk Wants to Remake Itself as Sea Level Rises, but Who Will Be Left Behind?
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Tidewater Gardens is among the most flood-prone areas in a city with one of the fastest rates of sea level rise in the country—half a foot since 1992, about twice the global average. Parts of the development were built in an old creek bed. When it rains or a storm pushes ocean tides higher than usual, water moves in like an old man settling into a well-worn chair.
Norfolk Wants to Remake Itself as Sea Level Rises, but Who Will Be Left Behind?
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Norfolk
Naval Station Norfolk
Climate Change
Meteorology
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Climate change is not real....even though it’s fully documented that Norfolk is steadily sinking.
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I'm glad Norfolk is responding to its (primarily Land Subsidence-caused) flooding. I'm convinced local response to local conditions is the best, most efficient from a taxpayer perspective, way to go. Did you know the land on the edge of the sea where the Battle of Thermopylae was fought is now several miles inland? We shouldn't call that sea-level subsidence, because the primary effect is rising land. Just the opposite holds true in Norfolk. Look up the info on the meteor crater and the ongoing land subsidence problem in Hampton Roads. Global mean sea-level rise remains about 1 foot per 100 years.
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