But geomorphologists who study the changing shape of the coast say climate change is threatening anew the 241 kilometres of dikes that line the coasts and tidal rivers of Nova Scotia and another 100 kilometres in New Brunswick. But the tides are inching higher as the Bay of Fundy rises — almost 40 centimetres in just 70 years, with international climate change scenarios projecting an acceleration in the decade to come. “Noel is a high vulnerability (dike), the rate of erosion for that area is quite high,” she says. “Area stable, however erosion at graveyard is at risk of washing around the dike,” an inspector says about a dike further down the shore from the Burncoat dike. Whether this kind of provincial response, with federal help, will be enough to produce a freshly reworked dike system capable of dealing with climate change remains to be seen.

Source: thestar March 29, 2019 13:07 UTC