Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Sandy revives debate over rising sea level

USA Today: Echoes of Superstorm Sandy remain from Manhattan's once-flooded streets to Maryland's battered boardwalks to New Jersey's washed-away beaches. No surprise. The Eastern Seaboard -- or any coastal region -- occasionally finds itself in the cross hairs of ferocious ocean storms. But it may have taken Sandy to drive home the threat scientists have been warning about for years: a rise in the sea level. More of the same could lie ahead, suggest ocean scientists such as U.S. Geological Survey oceanographer...

URL: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/NEWS/usaedition/2012-11-28-sea-level-riseUSABrd2_ST_U.htm

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