TIDE IS RISING AGAINST THE OUTER BANKS, SCIENTISTS SAY

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Stephen A. Smith, executive director of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, presented to the Dare County Tourism Board on the accelerating sea-level rise threatening the Outer Banks due to global warming. Smith emphasized that North Carolina's reliance on coal-burning power plants for 60% of its electricity makes it the 12th worst carbon-dioxide polluter nationally, and urged barrier island residents to support statewide measures to counter global warming. The article discusses projections that major land losses could occur by 2100 in several North Carolina coastal counties if glacial melting continues as predicted.