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1/ Researchers contracted by the National Park Service found that many national parks are vulnerable to flooding from sea level rise and big storms. Their data shows flooding will be much worse if the U.S. and other countries don’t reduce greenhouse gases. revealnews.org/article/see-ho…
2/ We made maps that show what the new normal could look at some iconic national parks if greenhouse gas emissions keep growing and a major hurricane hits in 2050. 👇👇
3/ If a category 4 hurricane landed, parts of the Boston Harbor Islands, including the Boston Light, could be covered in water.
4/ Large parts of Washington D.C. could be submerged following a category 3 hurricane. The Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument could be islands surrounded by the Potomac River.
5/ Historic Fort Jefferson, a massive brick fortress built during the 1800s, could be entirely underwater if a category 5 hurricane made landfall on Dry Tortugas National Park, an island off Florida’s Gulf Coast.
6/ So could Everglades National Park. In fact, a hurricane could cause the Florida coastline to move up significantly. All 1.5 million acres of the park could be submerged.
7/ A category 3 hurricane could flood the Canaveral National Seashore and wash away nests of rare sea turtles. It also could swamp NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and parts of Florida's coastal towns.
8/ At Cape Cod National Seashore, the ocean could cover all of Provincetown at the park’s northern tip, as well as big swaths of the rest of the vacation mecca during a category 3 hurricane.
9/ If a big storm developed in the Pacific Ocean, stretches of Stinson Beach in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area could be underwater. Areas of the popular beach could shrink to less than half their current size.
10/ At Fire Island, NY, the sea could stretch into communities. Long stretches of the island would be entirely underwater. The Fire Island Lights and Fire Island Pines would flood.
11/ At North Carolina’s Wright Brothers’ National Memorial, the stretch of barrier island where the Wright Brothers took their first flights could be nearly entirely underwater. So could the Outer Banks communities that surround it.
12/ On the Texas Gulf Coast, a category 5 hurricane could flood Padre Island National Seashore, the longest stretch of undeveloped barrier island in the world.
14/ This research project, which aimed to track the effects of climate change on national parks, was delayed for many months – and subjected to government censorship, as @shogrenE laid out last year. revealnews.org/article/wipeou…
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