1998 Year of the Ocean 



Impacts of Global Climate Change 



Table 2. Regional and National Wetland Losses for the Trend and 

 Scenarios (percent loss of current area) (from Titus, et al., 1991). 



.0 Meter Sea Level Rise 



to only currently developed areas being protected. 



Results are not statistically significant; sampling error exceeds estimate of wetland lost. 



An evaluation of the management options currently contemplated for Louisiana (e.g. 



restoring natural deltaic processes) was outside the scope of this study. 



This anomalous result is from small sample size. The impact on the nationwide results is 



negligible. 



G-33 



