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The Arctic is melting and the sea level is rising–but it won’t rise evenly around the globe. In the US, oceanographers tell us that the East coast will be the first place in the US that will be inundated. From Cape Hatteras to just north of Boston, sea levels are rising much faster in the East than they are in the rest of the world. Since 1990, the Atlantic Ocean has been rising at an annual rate that is 3 to 4 times faster than the global average.
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The Master of the Key warned about the danger of polar ice melting in his conversation with Whitley Strieber in 1998 (The NEW, revised edition of The Key, with a foreword that talks about how many of his statements later turned out to be true, will be in bookstores May 12). Now his prediction–like so many others in "The Key"–is coming true: Because of climate change, the air is getting warmer, melting the ice at the North Pole, which is diluting the surrounding Laurentian sea, making it less salty.read more

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It’s happened before and it may happen again: A century from now, visitors to coastal cities like Boston and New York could be valet parking their boats.

In National Geographic News, Christine Dell’Amore reports that “major cities in the northeastern US and eastern Canada are directly in the path of the greatest rise in sea level if Greenland continues to melt due to global warming.” In fact, if global warming continues, ocean levels around New York City will rise by twice as much as in other parts of the United States.
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