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Sinking Land, Not Faster Sea Level Rise, Is Causing Delaware Flooding
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H. Sterling Burnett -
October 12, 20200

A letter to the editor in the Lewes, Delaware Cape Gazette, “Delaware in jeopardy due to climate change,” asserts human caused climate change is causing increased flooding in Delaware. This is wrong. Data demonstrate land subsidence, not accelerated sea level rise, is responsible for Delaware’s coastal woes.

In the article, Claire A. Simmer, a professor emeritus in the field of management, says climate change is causing the people of Sussex County (Delaware) “to have firsthand experiences with flooding due to global warming ….” Simmer’s claim is false.

Delaware has the lowest mean elevation above sea level in the United States. To the extent Delaware is losing slightly more land to the sea than many other states, Dan Leathers, Delaware’s state climatologist, reports it is not due to an accelerated rate of sea level rise or more intense storms. One must look for another cause to Delaware’s increased flooding, which Leathers provides: land subsidence.

https://climaterealism.com/2020/10/sinking-land-not-faster-sea-level-rise-is-causing-delaware-flooding/

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Re: Sinking Land, Not Faster Sea Level Rise, Is Causing Delaware Flooding
« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2020, 06:32:03 pm »
In many places the subsidence is do the depletion of ground water faster than it can be replaced and in some cases there is a point of no return where the subsidence will never be reversed, I believe that this has already happened in California's Central Valley.

https://www.usgs.gov/centers/ca-water-ls