20 May 2014

WILL NATIONAL LANDMARKS BE UNDER WATER IN THE FUTURE : NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ON CLIMATE CHANGE

This summer many people will spend vacation time touring NATIONAL LANDMARKS.  Will they be underwater in the next 20-30 years due to climate change, rising oceans, and so on?  As I read about the flooding in Serbia-Croatia-Belgrade and the wild fires in too dry California, I worry.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - CLIMATE CHANGE - NATIONAL LANDMARKS

EXCERPT: "Along the Atlantic coast north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, sea levels have risen four times the national average, and historic downtowns face inundation. Boston's Faneuil Hall, where the Sons of Liberty plotted the Boston Tea Party, lies within the city's hundred-year tidal flood zone, which has experienced as many extreme high tides in the past decade as it had in the previous 80 years."