September 5, 2015 — Forget gloom-and-doom outlines. Forget too, simple denial. Something is happening and we should 1) take it seriously. and 2) do something about it. Even if the something we do is to start adjusting for enormous changes.
Sea levels are rising. We know that. It will slowly affect those who live near the ocean’s edge. It will affect commerce and travel as well. Consider that a New England scientist who found that blue crab living in the Gulf of Maine. He also found the blue crab are eating the green crabs. How will that affect the environment? What else is going on? And what will be the repercussions in the short- and long-term? We simply do not know.
In addition to the temperatures and the sea rise, we know we have overfished many areas and we have damaged habitat. All of these things could create conditions that we as of yet do not understand.
Rich Wong, a scientist with the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, said, “It’s really small, incremental rises in temperature that have huge impacts.”
Read the full editorial at Delaware Online