Trees Won't Stop Tsunamis, Scientists Warn

Phys Org ^ | December 26th, 2008

[CE2949BB]

Claims that coastal tree barriers can halt the might of a tsunami are false and dangerous, a team of international marine scientists said today.

[Misterioso]

Just damn!

[proudofthesouth]

DUH!!!!! How much of our taxpayer dollars were wasted to find this out? Anyone with a lick of sense knows that tree barriers can't stop a tsunami.

[gridlock]

People are predisposed to not accept the answer that there is nothing you can do about a situation, and that if there is a Tsunami, you’re just screwed. People always want to think there is a way to fix the problem.

But if that much water is coming, there is no way to stop it. The best defense is to be elsewhere when it does.

[gridlock]

Like Global Warming, this “solution” was accepted because it supported the overall agenda.

The agenda in this case is to discourage oceanfront development, tourism and use by humans of the shorline. The shorline is to be preserved for wildlife and the very few humans wealthy or priviledged enough to partake of the rare beauty. So knocking down condos and kicking the hoi-polloi of the beach in order to plant mangrove trees has very little to do with Tsumanis.

Similarly with Global Warming, the agenda is to discorage American consumerism and energy consumption. The best way to do that is to make energy scarce and expensive. The best way to do that is with a carbon tax.

[Venturer]

Bingo

[Red in Blue PA]

The headline reads like it is from Scrappleface.

[SunkenCiv]

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[rdl6989]

Where’s captain Obvious when you need him?

[Mike Darancette]

Claims that coastal tree barriers can halt the might of a tsunami are false and dangerous, a team of international marine scientists said today.

They went to school to figure that out? Trees would be just more stuff to crush victims?

[television is just wrong]

trees would just add to the debris coming at the victims.

[SunkenCiv]

But the one where umbrellas protect us from asteroid impacts — that one still goes, right? ;’)

[gleeaikin]

“kicking the hoi-polloi off the beach in order to plant mangrove trees”

I don/t think the idea was so much to destroy high-end development, as to discourage destruction of mangrove swamps which are an important nursery to basic fish stocks which are unfortunately decreasing world-wide.

In June 2006 I traveled the hurricane coast from Tampa to New Orleans photographing and observing the damage. Where there was dense unbroken brush/forest/jungle, there was little impact, except that I could see debris like plastic sheet and garbage bags clinging to branches ten feet over my head. In another area where there were large full grown individual trees planted along the road, the hurricanes had swept right past and destroyed homes and gardens for three or four blocks inland. It was incredible!! So I would tend to think that “virgin” forest/jungle might be a reasonable barrier to most surges.

[ukie55]

I need to go into research for a living...

I’m working way too hard.