Factoid/2008/03/18
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The Folly of Building Coastal Structures in Areas of Rising Sea Levels
- "Billions of years of geologic history have shown that coastal areas are the least constant features on the planets surface. Tropical storms (hurricanes) and extratropical storms (Pacific storms, noreasters) devastate shorelines... Fixed structures built on coasts with rising sea levels may be doomed." - excerpt from this GeoTimes article.
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