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Will Climate Change Swamp the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island?

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« on: December 26, 2013, 04:30:19 pm »

Protecting Liberty



Photograph courtesy Polinske, AL, National Geographic

"Although 'Miss Liberty' is not the lipstick type, she gets plenty of it, but in the wrong places. Lady visitors feel obliged to scrawl names and hometowns in the greasy stuff all over the statue. It is hard to remove," read the notes accompanying this September 1946 head shot of Lady Liberty. Today, because of visitor volume and fears about sustaining a glut of foot traffic, only about 14 percent of those who come to Liberty Island get to go up to the crown.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/12/131226-statue-liberty-ellis-island-climate-change-science-photos/
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