Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Dealing with Sea Level Rise Class 3 Links

In this class, we watched the first 2 minutes of a video about Norfolk, VA, we discussed Dike considerations, and we covered New York City, Miami/South Florida, Alaska and Bangladesh.

The links to Videos shown today are as follows:
Norfolk  
New York City's $20 BN Plan
Is Miami Beach Doomed?  (first FL video)
South Florida Sea Level Rise (second FL video)

The link to the New York City Panel on Climate Change 2015 Report 

For the next class, Joan and I plan to cover New Orleans, Assateague, the Netherlands and Pacific Island Nations.

Based on a question in today's class, I did research what businesses in Coney Island, Brooklyn NY, are doing to plan for sea level rise, and seems they are still investing to make a quick buck before they go under for good. For a dramatic series of 50 photos after Hurricane Sandy.

And as another option, Walking on Water, as I am doing in the below pic. Storm-petrel Bill.

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