Global warming, rising seas threaten New Jersey

[dogg57]

LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP — While the economy may be the most immediate issue, climate change is on our doorstep, said Melanie Reding, education coordinator for the Jacques Cousteau Coastal Education Center in Little Egg Harbor.
Reding spoke Saturday about sea level rise and what warming oceans mean for New Jersey's coast, to an audience at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences.
"New Jersey has a real issue," Reding said. "Sixty percent of our population lives within the coastal region. We have low elevation and high population."


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[manumuskin]

LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP — While the economy may be the most immediate issue, climate change is on our doorstep, said Melanie Reding, education coordinator for the Jacques Cousteau Coastal Education Center in Little Egg Harbor.
Reding spoke Saturday about sea level rise and what warming oceans mean for New Jersey's coast, to an audience at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences.
"New Jersey has a real issue," Reding said. "Sixty percent of our population lives within the coastal region. We have low elevation and high population."


http://www.app.com/article/20110319...n-New-Jersey-expert-says?odyssey=mod|mostview

at 40 ft above sea level giving the current rise rates I'll be maybe 500 years old when I end up with beachfront property,I'm not making any plans though.By then the glaciers may be on the advance again because we'll either be gone by then or all the fossil fuel will be used up.Ten to one we wipe each other out over who gets the fossil fuel long before it runs out.
Al

 

[pinelandpaddler]

I like water.

 

[Boyd]

climate change is on our doorstep, said Melanie Reding

 

[manumuskin]

Seriously H. Sapiens lives from Tierra del Fuego to Greenland and from the Sahara to the frigid plateau of Tibet.Whatever the climate may throw at us we can deal with it,what scares me is our plain inability to deal with each other.
Al