'Where the Boys Are' Disproves Rising Seas Scare

NewsBusters ^ | October 24, 2014 | P.J. Gladnick

[TigersEye]

Claim That Sea Level Is Rising Is a Total Fraud

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.

[teeman8r]

Pshaw... Heston was there in the FUTURE...

[KarlInOhio]

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. :-)

[Bobalu]

[goldstategop]

The year of the birth of the Messiah.

Wasn’t he supposed to heal the oceans already?

[fella]

Haven’t figured out how to make a link with my Samsung Mega but “Where the Boys Are” is on YouTube.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

But what about Connie Franklin?

http://vimeo.com/62729762

[trebb]

I know for a fact that Rockaway Beach is exactly where it was 60 years ago, but it wasn’t 55 years ago, after Hurricane Donna. I remember water under the boardwalk for months afterwards. They just pumped water from the ocean back onto the beach. It is hard make any judgment one way or the other about sea level based on one locality. Land rises and subsumes. Louisiana is sinking, and it has nothing to do with rising oceans, it’s due to sinking land. Modern satellite geodesy probably gives us our first really reliable measurements of sea level, and yes it is rising, but no more quickly than at the beginning of the 20th Century.

Yep - lived around beaches for a bunch of years - waves erode and trucks replenish...

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

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.

[trebb]

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.