New Brunswick’s coastline is becoming a major casualty of climate change, a new study suggests. Canadian scientists say global warming is causing a rise in sea-levels, eroding some of the province’s coastal areas and triggering a gradual rise in storms. The intensity of storm surges also seems to be increasing, meaning the massive amounts of rain and flooding that hit the Shediac area six years ago could be more than a freak occurrence. The government officially declared the flooding a disaster. ‘The melting of ice in the polar regions and the warming of the ocean — called thermal expansion — is the single largest contributor over the next century of sea-level rise,’ Real Daigle of Environment Canada told CTV.ca. Daigle and a team of researchers worked on the study for three years, closely watching the Shediac coastline and others. The study, called ‘Impacts of Sea-Level Rise and Climate Change on the Coastal Zone of Southeastern New Brunswick,’ can be found here. The report also argues that climate change is just one of two major factors contributing to rising sea-levels. ‘We have something on our coast called crustal subsidence. In other words, we’re […]