Alex DeMetrick reports only a fraction of the state’s coastline is protected.
Ice is melting faster than previously predicted. In March, researchers estimated that could raise sea levels by six-feet by the end of this century. That’s on top of the one-foot rise in the 20th century.
“The sea level rise that we saw in the last century was really unprecedented in 2,800 years,” said Dr. Donald Boaesch, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.
Following Hurricane Sandy, Maryland’s Department of Natural Resources joined in an assessment of the state’s 7,000 miles of coastline.
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what a load! there is NOTHING more UNSUSTAINABLE than a shoreline
Sand shifts every day. The earth has been evolving and changing for millions of years and will continue, hopefully tax free, as it has for millions of years.
Dolts.
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