Chuck Burton/The Associated Press Rows of sandbags surround a home on North Topsail Beach, North Carolina, in preparation of Hurricane Florence. Orrin Pilkey, a professor emeritus of earth and ocean sciences at Duke University, has been issuing public warnings about sea level rise for years. But it’s coastal development that has Pilkey most concerned. “This time of urban renewal at the time of sea level rise is nothing short of madness,” he said. “Past hurricanes in the Carolinas, especially here [in North Carolina], have basically been urban renewal projects.

Source: Huffington Post September 14, 2018 17:48 UTC