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Combo Beach Remover: Rising Sea Levels and Sea Walls

"The combination of sea walls and rising sea level will accelerate the rate of land loss in front of those sea walls," said Peter Howd, an oceanographer who conducts shoreline research for the United States Geological Survey in St. Petersburg. "So people with a sea wall and a beach in front of it will end up with just a sea wall." - excerpt appeared in the New York Times article (registration required) from 6/20/06, Next Victim of Warming: The Beaches, by Cornelia Dean.

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