Talk #1042

Title:HOLDING BACK THE TIDE
Category:scitech
Timeslot:Sun 02:30 pm (90 minutes)
Location:ACC / 205-B
Description:The Arctic Ocean could be an open sea within our children's lifetime. Melting ice sheets from Greenland and Antarctica are raising sea levels. Can we build dikes around Florida and the Gulf states? How will America handle the rising tide? How will the rest of the world cope, and how will the West deal with populations displaced by shoreline change?
Speaker(s):Todd McCaffrey, Don Sakers(M), Jerry Pournelle, Edwin L. Strickland III