Keith Alverson, UNEP/DEPI Coordinator, Climate Change Adaptation and Terrestrial Ecosystems Branch, presented recently at the NCSE conference.
The rise of sea levels is not a new phenomenon and nature has found ways to adapt. But the rate of rise today, double the historic rate, may pose an urgent problem to humans around the planet with loss of life and property, as well as salt water entering the fresh water tables and the spread of disease. From their videos series on oceans, watch HERE as Jim Toomey shares ways to respond to this change.