When the glacier melts, the weight disap- the precision of the projections declines as they pears, allowing the land to rebound to its original look further and further into the future. [...] Jamestown Island, the loca- As sea level rises, the 100-year floodplain will in Virginia and tion of the first permanent English settlement, is move inland, following the contours of the land. [...] can break the Business Community,” that was sponsored by Through dialogues among scientists, policy the Virginia Coastal Policy Clinic (VCPC) at and legal scholars, local and state government pattern of needing the William and Mary Law School, the Virginia officials, the private sector, and NGOs in confer- a disastrous storm Coastal Coalition, the blue moon fund, the World ences and forum venues,. [...] The renewed climate commis- The state and the Hampton Roads region sion is charged “to review, update, and priori- are poised to move rapidly forward on creating tize the recommendations of the 2008 Climate the adaptation and resiliency solutions needed at Change Action Plan developed by the earlier home and globally. [...] The views expressed are those of the author and not the official position of the Cooper Center or the University.
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