[Lonesome in Massachussets]

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.

[tcrlaf]

Fort Lauderdale “Replenishes” its beaches every few years by pumping in sand from offshore.

Probably not the best example to use.

[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...