Posted on 10/24/2014 6:47:33 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
"Where the Boys Are" is both an entertaining 1960 movie as well as a catchy Connie Francis song which was the theme tune of the film. However, it now appears that "Where the Boys Are" is performing a great unintended public service. The opening credits of the movie has preserved for us an aerial view just where the ocean of 1960 was in relation to the sand and State Road A1A in Fort Lauderdale. Guess what? The beach is exactly as wide now as it was in 1960.
On Friday morning Brian Craig, co-host of the Steve Kane Show, the longest running radio program in South Florida mentioned that just by watching "Where the Boys Are" you can see the beach is just as wide now as 54 years ago. Your humble correspondent decided to verify this assertion and found this title credits aerial view of Fort Lauderdale Beach. Yup! The current ocean level is just about where it was when George Hamilton and Yvette Mimieux were working on their tans at the beach back then.
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Sea levels began to rise 18k years ago at the end of the last glacial period. They have risen about 135 meters since then which is an average of 7.5 millimeters per year. That is an average of 750 mm per century (29.5 inches) which is far more than the average over the last century.
From 1880 to 2000 sea level rose about 20 cm or just under 8 inches. Far far less than the nearly 30 inches per century average over the last 18,000 years.
Pshaw... Heston was there in the FUTURE...
Was there in the future?
You need a new grammar book. I suggest Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's book Time Traveler's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. :-)
The year of the birth of the Messiah.
Wasn’t he supposed to heal the oceans already?
Haven’t figured out how to make a link with my Samsung Mega but “Where the Boys Are” is on YouTube.
Yep - lived around beaches for a bunch of years - waves erode and trucks replenish...
In the case of Rockaway Beach, barges pumped a slurry of sand and water from the ocean onto the beach, the water running back into the ocean, the sand remaining.
I've seen it done that way a few places. Myrtle Beach and the MS Gulf Coast were/are places I saw much sand being imported and placed. The MS Gulf Coast is shallow and barrier islands tend to hold the 'dirt" which doesn't make for very nice beaches if the slurry method is used.
One way or the other, the status/size of a beach over decades isn't proof of rising/falling sea levels - it's just maintenance due to wind/wave/storm erosion.
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