Comments on: Rising Seas Pushing Island Nations to the Brink http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/05/23/rising-seas-put-island-nations-on-the-brink/ Tapping experts in climate, geology, oceanography, ecology, sustainable development, global health, energy, food and water, State of the Planet captures stories of how the Earth works and how we can sustainably make our lives better. Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:28:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: steve http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/05/23/rising-seas-put-island-nations-on-the-brink/comment-page-1/#comment-17193 steve Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:22:12 +0000 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=14977#comment-17193 Island nations……what about US cities like New Orleans and Miami and Lower Manhattan? What about Sanibal Island in Florida?

It makes a lot of sense for the US Government to be dumping all that sediment from the Mississippi in the Gulf instead of rebuilding the wet lands around N.O. Brain dead US government…..

It’s not just 3rd world island nations under threat….even the US has big problems with rising sea levels. Take a look at many of our nuke power plants….

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