Rising Sea Level Big Concern Along S.C.

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Global warming and a rise in sea levels could dramatically affect South Carolina's coast, according to scientists and environmental officials meeting at a conference in Charleston this week.





The rising ocean is "going to shave off a ton of landscape along the coast," which could drown marshes that act as buffers for storm surge, raising the likelihood of major flooding when the next hurricane hits, said Jim Morris, marine studies professor at the University of South Carolina and director of its Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences.

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Water temperatures also are rising and that could bring additional problems to South Carolina's coastal waters.

Three summers ago, a married couple became ill from eating a toxin-polluted barracuda that had been caught off the South Carolina coast.

The poisoning is normally associated with species in more tropical Caribbean waters, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But as warm waters expand northward, tropical fish, and potentially new hazards, are following into the South Atlantic's waters, experts said.
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He says it's all a mass delusion. We'll be fine.

my Mom owns property smack dab in the middle of Florida. She's considering selling it because of her age but I told her to hang on to it for a few more years. I told her that it may be beach-front property soon and worth a hell of a lot more. The sad thing is, I wasn't kidding.