Posted on 07/09/2019 11:19:33 AM PDT by rktman
The California coast grew and prospered during a remarkable moment in history when the sea was at its tamest.
But the mighty Pacific, unbeknownst to all, was nearing its final years of a calm but unusual cycle that had lulled dreaming settlers into a false sense of endless summer.
Elsewhere, Miami has been drowning, Louisiana shrinking, North Carolina’s beaches disappearing like a time lapse with no ending. While other regions grappled with destructive waves and rising seas, the West Coast for decades was spared by a rare confluence of favorable winds and cooler water. This “sea level rise suppression,” as scientists call it, went largely undetected. Blinded from the consequences of a warming planet, Californians kept building right to the water’s edge.
But lines in the sand are meant to shift. In the last 100 years, the sea rose less than 9 inches in California. By the end of this century, the surge could be greater than 9 feet.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
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They should kill themselves in any manner of their choice!
Could.
This is in the Times? Their target readers must be preschoolers.
Why cant I buy a Malibu beach front house for pennies on the dollar?
Rep Hank Johnson told me this could be due to the combined weight of all of the illegals infesting the once great state of California..
It’s not surprising to see politically correct global warming alarmists discriminate on the basis of state boundaries.
AOC says we have less than 12 years to exist due to climate change so what is the worry about rising water levels in 100 years?
No they have a Universe worth of stars in different stages of existence combined with data collected from our own space probes to be able to predict how our own star will behave. Try looking for the series and watching it before making such idiotic comments.
I’ve lived at the Jersey Shore since I was a kid. The ocean’s still right where it was then. The same parts of the same towns that flooded then still flood. But they dry faster due to improved drainage infrastructure.
The North Carolina coast has been continuously reshaped by littoral drift since...forever. And the quakes and subsidence may be what is sinking California, if it is indeed sinking. ‘Cause they lie all the time.
The Louisiana delta is indeed shrinking at it does not have one damn thing to do with global warming.
It is a function of the Army Corp of engineers. They have put the Mississippi river in levees. It is like a straight jacket for the river. During the spring floods in the past the sediments would wash out over the upper and lower delta and thus increase the land area and maintain the marsh. Because of levees all the sediments now just pour down the continental shelf to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
An interesting contrast is the Achafalaya River in Louisiana. It is actually a distributor of the Mississippi but far upstream for the Mississippi Delta. The sediments without levees below Morgan City are expanding that delta and it is very healthy.
I have looked at pictures of the delta over the years. It is expanding rapidly.
Then again, the surge could be another 9 inches.
The only thing that has not risen is IQ. What absolute nitwittery.
When liberals sell their oceanfront mansions for pennies on the dollar, and give up private Jets and move into a cave, then I’ll be concerned. Until then, I’ll enjoy my modern Life...ok, LAT?
Given the tectonic activity in this part of the world, these Global Warming Environmental wackos had better watch what they write & say.
They may get their exact prophecies fulfilled in a manner not of their liking.
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/world-of-change/wax_lake.php
Link to pics and explanation of the expanding Achafalaya Delta.
George Strait was just a little ahead of the curve.
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/world-of-change/wax_lake.php
Link to pics and explanation of the expanding Achafalaya Delta.
Our choices are definitely grim. That means more filthy kalifornians fleeing to civilization, turning everything they touch to dung.
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