Flooding due to climate change

Tidal Flooding to increase over the next 30 years

I know most of us in the East are dealing with snow right now, but spring is on its way, I promise!

The Union of Concerned Scientists has been gathering data and evidence of increasing flooding along the eastern and Gulf coasts due to rising sea levels. If you look at the US population distribution, you see that this will affect a large percentage of our people. We already know that New Orleans is below sea level, but most of coastal Florida is below ten feet above sea level. The Tidal flooding page shown above discusses how flooding will occur regularly based on monthly tide schedules. This site ( http://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/tools/slr) has a map of the US illustrating how rising sea levels will impact land area.

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Green Rooftops

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/multimedia/chicago/8.html

“At 24.5 acres, Millennium Park is the largest green roof in the world. It covers two parking garages, a railway, and an opera hall.”

Great photo essay at PBS on the green roofs of Chicago.

This is so cool! There are so many things we can do to mitigate our impact on natural Earth. Why waste all of this space with useless nothing? I hope more inspiring ideas follow. You never know where our imaginations can take us!