Part 5: Climate Change, Global Warming and Ocean Levels in Hampton Roads

Authors

Regional Studies Institute, Old Dominion University

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2009

Publication Title

The State of the Region: Hampton Roads 2009

Pages

104-113

Abstract

To the extent that global warming occurs, it will bring with it rising sea levels, which, in the absence of new dikes and levees, will cover vast areas of the Peninsula and Norfolk, Chesapeake and the Virginia Beach oceanfront.

Comments

Full document for The State of the Region: Hampton Roads 2000 available at:

https://doi.org/10.25776/3e6t-rz78

Repository Citation

Regional Studies Institute, Old Dominion University, "Part 5: Climate Change, Global Warming and Ocean Levels in Hampton Roads" (2009). State of the Region Reports: Hampton Roads. 165.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/sor_reports/165