Posted on Jun 24, 2016
What it might take to protect the world's biggest naval base from rising seas
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What it might take to protect the world's biggest naval base from rising seas
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Norfolk
Climate Change Norfolk
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Republicans all lined up forming a wall saying, "this is a figment of your imagination go back"
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
Scientist and Engineers at Navy Research Labs have been discussing this for a very long time. Just amazes me that any Military Man can be a Climate Change Denier.
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That place is treacherous when it has storms. While on base the roads flood and sometimes the tide smacks up to the pier and sends water flying at least 10ft in the air. Plus that wind, jeez I"m surprised I didn't get blown off the pier when I was coming to the ship everyday.
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Lol. Norfolk's problem isn't about volcanoes or fault lines - it's problem is that it sits on the south rim of the Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater, and everything is still slumping in:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs49-98/
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs49-98/
The Chesapeake Bay Bolide Impact: A New View of Coastal Plain Evolution - USGS Fact Sheet 049-98
A spectacular geological event took place on the Atlantic margin of North America about 35 million years ago in the late part of the Eocene Epoch. Sea level was unusually high everywhere on Earth, and the ancient shoreline of the Virginia region was somewhere in the vicinity of where Richmond is today. Tropical rain forests covered the slopes of the Appalachians. To the east of a narrow coastal plain, a broad, lime (calcium carbonate)-covered...
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