Saturday, February 22, 2014

Report Describes the Unfathomable Cost of Inaction on Rising Seas

Flooding caused by Hurricane Katrina in the New Orleans area in 2005. The global economic damages of failing to build dikes, levees, sea walls and other flood protections could be almost beyond comprehension as seas rise from global warming, a new scientific study has found. (Credit: Paul Morse) Click to enlarge.
The world needs to invest tens of billions of dollars a year in beefing up shoreline defenses against rising oceans or it will face mind-boggling costs in the decades to come, according to new research published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

 Report Describes the Unfathomable Cost of Inaction on Rising Seas
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