Scientists say the overwhelming majority of the state’s wetlands – a natural buffer against hurricanes – are in a state of ‘drowning’ and could be gone by 2070

“If this rate of sea level rise continues for another 10 or 20 years, then we would probably lose the vast majority of our wetlands in that time period,” said Torbjorn Tornqvist, a Tulane wetlands expert and the second of the study’s three authors, along with sea level expert Sonke Dangendorf.

The paper is here

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    9 months ago

    Those kinds of adaptation measures have limits, and I don’t expect them to be viable long-term. People have already moved inland to some degree, and this is an indication that more will have to.