According to other posts on this thread (thank you all so much) the sea level actually is rising, and has been since measurements started. But you are right: erosion is the real culprit on the outer banks. I also suspect that the east coast is actually subsiding due to plate tectonics. In other words it is completely out of Man's control.
I don’t buy any of it.
500 feet is a change we can see.
.5 mm per year is not something that can be proven nor anything to be alarmed about even if true
ice at poles growing so if anything sea levels are lowering not rising
But if there is one scientist who knows more about sea levels than anyone else in the world it is the Swedish geologist and physicist Nils-Axel Mörner, formerly chairman of the INQUA International Commission on Sea Level Change. And the uncompromising verdict of Dr Mörner, who for 35 years has been using every known scientific method to study sea levels all over the globe, is that all this talk about the sea rising is nothing but a colossal scare story.
Despite fluctuations down as well as up, “the sea is not rising,” he says. “It hasn’t risen in 50 years.
We could make erosion illegal...executive order.