What will the height of the Mississippi River be, when there is sea level rise in the Gulf of Mexico?
Water can be very clear and potable directly from a stream because it runs so fast and over rocks. While every American has not experienced a clear and clean mountain stream, they exist. What happens to water in rivers and streams when it's height rises permanently and the flow rate slows?
Is the USA ready for the challenge or will it continue it's EMERGENCY RESPONSE which never solves the problem, but, provides a bandaid to it.
How many cities and towns in the USA have a hydrologist working on it's water issues with the changing climate? Is the USA able to do better than react to emergencies? If not, why not?
Water can be very clear and potable directly from a stream because it runs so fast and over rocks. While every American has not experienced a clear and clean mountain stream, they exist. What happens to water in rivers and streams when it's height rises permanently and the flow rate slows?
Is the USA ready for the challenge or will it continue it's EMERGENCY RESPONSE which never solves the problem, but, provides a bandaid to it.
How many cities and towns in the USA have a hydrologist working on it's water issues with the changing climate? Is the USA able to do better than react to emergencies? If not, why not?
February 22, 2016
By Justin Gillis
The worsening of tidal flooding in American (click here) coastal communities is largely a
consequence of greenhouse gases from human activity, and the problem
will grow far worse in coming decades, scientists reported Monday.
Those
emissions, primarily from the burning of fossil fuels, are causing the
ocean to rise at the fastest rate since at least the founding of ancient
Rome, the scientists said. They added that in the absence of human
emissions, the ocean surface would be rising less rapidly and might even
be falling.
The
increasingly routine tidal flooding is making life miserable in places
like Miami Beach; Charleston, S.C.; and Norfolk, Va., even on sunny
days.
Though these types of floods often produce only a foot or two of
standing saltwater, they are straining life in many towns by killing
lawns and trees, blocking neighborhood streets and clogging storm
drains, polluting supplies of freshwater and sometimes stranding entire island communities for hours by overtopping the roads that tie them to the mainland.
Such events are just an early harbinger of the coming damage, the new research suggests....
