Posted on 03/16/2021 2:20:47 AM PDT by Libloather
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The risk to tiny Avon from climate change is particularly dire - it is, after all, located on a mere sandbar of an island chain, in a relentlessly rising Atlantic. But people in the town are facing a question that is starting to echo along the U.S. coastline as seas rise and storms intensify. What price can be put on saving a town, a neighborhood, a home where generations have built their lives?
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Along the Outer Banks - where tourist-friendly beaches are shrinking by more than 14 feet a year in some places, according to the North Carolina Division of Coastal Management - other towns have imposed tax increases similar to the one Avon is considering. On Monday, county officials will vote on whether Avon will join them.
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“Based on the science that I’ve seen for sea-level rise, at some point, the Outer Banks - the way they are today - are not forever,” said David Hallac, superintendent of the national parks in eastern North Carolina, including the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, which encompasses the land around Avon. “Exactly when that happens is not clear.”
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In response, the county wants to put about 1 million cubic yards of sand on the beach. The project would cost between $11 million and $14 million and, according to Outten, would need to be repeated about every five years.
That impermanence, combined with the high cost, has led some in Avon to question whether beach nourishment is worth the money. They point to Buxton, the next town south of Avon, whose beach got new sand in 2018, paid for through higher taxes. Now, most of that sand has washed away, leaving a beachfront motel and vacation rentals teetering over the water.
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Ah. Beach erosion is not 'rising seas'. It's nature. Oh, and science. They should've put that in the title.
Relocate the town. You can’t replace people/families washed out due to storms.
Want tax dollars? Don’t blame erosion - blame global warming.
remember when they used to build jetties to fight erosion?
Maybe it’s not such a good idea to build on unstable land.
Yes, an acquaintance with a summer home on the west end of Long Island described how beach erosion further east was dumping sand at her area - putting her home further and further from the water. Neighbors were concerned they’d eventually put in a new street between them and the water’s edge...
She never believed the sea levels were falling; she understood they were receiving the sand from further up.
To avoid environmental disaster, people are confronted with two choices; sacrifice their economic future or get rid of their leftists. The latter would actually work.
“...relentlessy rising Atlantic”??? Seriously? How much has it really risen or is there subsidance of the land or is there no measurable change at all?
Beach erosion is not rising sea levels!!!
Umm, someone inform these alarmist idiots that there is NO stopping the rising Sea(s), ocean’s or whatever. It has long being happening in cycles for hundreds of thousands of years if not tens of millions of years, hello!?
The rising sea level is another myth perpetuated along with and as a part of “climate change”. The sea does not rise, the land sinks. That is what happens in most of the Gulf of Mexico coastal lands. For that matter, most of the rest of the world.
And beach erosion goes on irrespective of the actual sea level. There may be stronger storms, the actual cause of which has more to do with atmospheric conditions and solar influence, than with a microscopic change in the constituents of the atmosphere. The temperature range of earth’s surface does fluctuate, but rarely wildly, and almost always within a relatively narrow range.
“a relentlessly rising Atlantic”
Evidence?
“Based on the science that I’ve seen for sea-level rise”
Meaningless cliché. You can’t see “science”.
The water is draining from the Pacific, causing the relentless rise of the Atlantic.
Don’t argue with me, it’s science! ;o)
Has anyone ever written the author to ask him how he mistook beach erosion for rising seas?
Biden’s unemployed frackers can lift whole cities with sand injected horizontally beneath the ground. Add a little cement to the mixture for man-made bedrock, or leave as is for natural gas recovery. A coastal power plant can inject its hot CO2/H2O exhaust into the other end to increase production.
I don’t believe the land sinks so much as it just erodes back into the sea. One study I read many years ago was about sedimentation released from the Mississippi river. It was estimated that the Mississippi river released 200 to 300 million tons of sediment into the Gulf on a yearly basis. Now throw in all the rivers and streams that feed into our oceans and that sedimentation deposit goes into the billions easily. We’re still not through though, there’s airborne deposits such as sand that comes of the coast of Africa. They also estimate that 50 to 100 tons of solar particles make their was into out oceans on a daily basis.
On the ranch here in West TX we have 22 manmade ponds. About every 10 to 15 years when we get a dry spell we dredge them out due to all the sediment washing in and filling them up. The height of the water in the pond doesn’t change when full since the spillways remain constant but the depth is effected considerably losing a considerable amount of it’s holding capacity. Were we to allow the ponds to go undredged they would eventually fill with sediment
I thoroughly believe the oceans are rising in fact I see no way they can’t unless we completely ignore erosion and it’s daily impact on the land above the ocean surface.
Maybe a big splash when Guam tips over?
I like the Outer Banks, vacationed there several times.
Really isn’t much to it. Seems one island lost several miles to a storm recently, uprooted trees strewn thru a bay. Ocean on one side, bay on the other, a few hundred feet of sand in between. Yeah it’s gonna change as it always has. Basically a 90 mile sand bar.
Ocean may be rising, yes. At a rate of ~3mm per year.
You don’t move there expecting nothing to change.
High taxes make the ocean stable and storms non-intense..???
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