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Federal government geoscientist, Gavin Manson, has developed maps of
Canada's coastlines showing where flooding and erosion caused by
climate change will inflict maximum damage this century. Manson has
taken into account factors like the disappearance of sea ice, rising
waves, and the makeup of the shoreline.
The
fear of rising sea levels has already been documented in the Changing
Climate Report Ottawa released in April for large areas of Atlantic
Canada, where the ocean is predicted to rise up to as high as a meter
before the end of the century.
Another
factor included in the maps is how the melting of ice in the ground
below the permafrost leaves coasts open to more erosion.
Many
scientists have also pointed out that climate change caused by global
warming is happening at a faster rate than previously expected.
As
the poet Robert Service said, ''It is later than you think, much
later than you think.''
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