New Haven Register - Rising seas put salt marshes at risk
Connecticut did nothing as the state became increasingly vulnerable to slowly rising oceans.
Residents apparently failed to notice a rise of about 1 foot since 1900, or did not care as salt marshes disappeared beneath Long Island Sound.
Highways and buildings sprouted up to the shore, preventing the marshes from moving inland as the water level increased.
Now about 30 percent of Connecticut’s salt marshes are gone, the remainder are endangered, and there is no practical way to bring them back, geologists, environmental scientists and geophysicists said.
