Posted on 03/03/2020 9:31:09 AM PST by rktman
Climate change and sea level rise are currently on track to wipe out half the world’s sandy beaches by 2100, researchers warned Monday.
Even if humanity sharply reduces the fossil fuel pollution that drives global warming, more than a third of the planet’s sandy shorelines could disappear by then, crippling coastal tourism in countries large and small, they reported in the journal Nature Climate Change.
“Apart from tourism, sandy beaches often act as the first line of defence from coastal storms and flooding, and without them impacts of extreme weather events will probably be higher,” lead author Michalis Vousdoukas, a researcher at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, told AFP.
“We have to prepare.”
Some countries, such as the United States, are already planning extensive defence systems, but in most nations such massive engineering schemes will be unfeasible, unaffordable or both.
Australia could be hit hardest, according to the findings, with nearly 15,000 kilometres (more than 9,000 miles) of white-beach coastline washed away over the next 80 years, followed by Canada, Chile and the United States.
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Will they vanish, or just move?
RIGHT
We’l all be wiped out by a plague first so there will be no one to observe it when it happens.
The Beach Nazis will be able to say: No beach for you!
“Climate change and sea level rise are currently on track to wipe out half the world’s sandy beaches by 2100,”
Or not.
And I was planning to buy beachfront property in 2100.
I thought they were supposed to be gone by now. And after I bought all that property in Arizona for potential beach condos.
Where’s the “DOOMAGE” ping?
LOL this all cracks me up.
BTW, considering how EnviroMentals all want us to change our ways anyhow, what’s the big deal about simply MOVING when we know the shore is going to change?
Oh no please raise my taxes so we don’t have this terrible loss!
Then again, they could not.
Climate Nazis - that is an apt description.
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I stopped right there.
Should make seafood easier to get.
“Lord, forgive us our transgressions.” A joke for the geologists in the crowd.
“Even if humanity sharply reduces the fossil fuel pollution that drives global warming, more than a third of the planet’s sandy shorelines could disappear by then,”
Ahah, here’s the money quote.
So, even if we DIDN’T do anything “bad”, we’re still having ocean creep?
I have followed climate science since my college years in the late 80’s. They have pretty much been wrong on everything and the bigger the prediction the more wrong they are.
I rarely even read articles with headlines like this anymore. In fact, the authors should be charged with plagiarism because they (like the MSM every night) just parrot the standard talking points.
There is no science involved and it offends me that they claim the mantle of science when they do not follow the scientific method.
You still can, just back a little further.
Good. Laying out on the beach contributes to skin cancer.
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