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Regionialized Sea-Level Rise Scenarios

Good news NW, bad news NE.

This is a pretty technical report, but the basics are easier to understand than all the citations. See GLOBAL AND REGIONAL SEA LEVEL RISE SCENARIOS FOR THE UNITED STATES. It redefines the geography of "Ocean City."

It is another reason to live and work in the Pacific Northwest in the future climate change world that is projected. 

For more of a layman's explanation of the report, see this Homeland Security News Wire article, Sea levels in U.S. Northeast to rise faster than global average.

It is very possible we won't be reading this type of material during the next four-year period of American history as federal government climate change science "goes dark."

Clare Rubin shared the links above.

Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.
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