Quote Originally Posted by Lemur
It's a serious issue, and I'm uninterested in the fear-mongering from the enviro-extremists. I'm even less interested in the bland complacency coming from the G.O.P.

Lemur's prediction: Sea levels will change, and when they do, the taxpayer will be expected to buy off every idiot who built their house on low ground.

Where's the chipper thumbs-up in that? Please explain.
Ouch. You have hit upon the one nearly inevitable problem. Regardless of what brings about change -- and its inevitable even if simple cyclic shift is the only reason -- I will be expected to bail out the waterfront developers with my tax dollars.

I don't think anyone has really planned with multiple centuries of life on a coastline as their rubric for what designs and parameters are sensible.