NC beach homes and coast are 'doomed' and residents need to get out, scientist says
There’s a “disaster” approaching North Carolina’s coast, and it’s not a hurricane. It’s an increasingly encroaching sea, Orrin Pilkey says.An award-winning Duke University professor emeritus of geology, who is also the founder and director emeritus of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines at Western Carolina University, Pilkey doesn’t mince words when it comes to sea level rise.”These beaches are doomed,” Pilkey has said, multiple times — most recently in The […]
