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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Seems to me there’s a story in the Bible about building on a foundation of sand.
Matthew 7:26.
The below link is a picture of rising sea waters. This is Dauphin Island, Alabama, a barrier island off the Alabama coast. This was, at one time, a very popular fishing pier.
https://live.staticflickr.com/4865/44545194040_bbafb26786_b.jpg
Obama’s house on Martha’s Vineyard is only three feet above high tide. If he is not worried about “a relentlessly rising Atlantic” why should these people be worried?
The house is within mortar range of a raft off shore
correct, it's nature.
The global warming liars told us that the island of Tuvalu would be engulfed by the Pacific Ocean before 2005. Guess what? It’s still there.
Most people don’t remember this Monty Python farce, but New Zealand promised to move the Tuvalu people off the island and build houses for them on New Zealand beaches. New Zealand would also include a monthly government stipend to the climate change “refugees” and all the beer they could drink. Furthermore, the natives would be discouraged from eating endangered turtles and eat lūʻau New Zealand sheep instead.
This was front page news in all the major media outlets. It would be great fun to revisit this fiasco and broadcast it on all the networks.
Right—not “rising seas”. Just the interplay between tides, waves, storms, the shape and length and composition of the coastline and the direction in which it faces compared to the direction in which the surf comes from and the direction in which it recedes, etc. Not that a journalist would want to stray from the narrative or anything.
According to YouTuber Lionel Climate Change is the equivalent of “The Holy Spirit” that was invoked when he was a kid in Catholic school. As an adult he still can’t explain what it is but it was invoked as the explanation or the reason for everything.
Liberals don’t actually believe the ocean is rising, or they’d stop funding the flood insurance for homes right on the water.
That’ll teach’em to build on spit.
They should be pouring 10 million bucks of concrete not sand.
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
14 feet a year? Sound like some @ssholes aren’t managing the coast very well and looking for the scapegoat of globull warming as an excuse for them not knowing what beach errosion is. Ill bet they wiped out all the native grasses and dunes where the beach just happens to be disappearing.
Yep I was right. Nothing holding the beach together. No grasses. No breakers. No dunes. So said because we wouldn't want the rich to loose thier $1 million dollar views.... when they loose their million dollar houses
“Beach erosion is not ‘rising seas’. It’s nature. Oh, and science. They should’ve put that in the title.
correct, it’s nature”
No it’s not always nature. I hold my first master’s in geology specifically as a sedimentologist. My thesis field area was the Bolivar peninsula and southern Galveston island. I was sponsored by state farm and the NSF to do a regressive analysis of beach erosion rates for both those locations. Those portions of the Texas coast line are eroding due to human induced sediment starvation. Specifically the damming of the Sabine and Trinity river systems. The sediments that would naturally nourish those coastlines are being trapped behind dams on lakes up stream. While I don’t know about the outer banks I have a extensive data for this region of Texas. multi spectral satellite data, airborne lidar, ground penetrating radar, onshore and off shore core samples, and we even got a permit to trench a federally protected dune down to the mudline. I can prove that the sediment balance is negative and can also match the sediments in place to those in the Sabine and Trinity river systems by petrographic analysis. The loss of beachfront on that portion of the Texas coast is 100% man made. Houston is not going to remove lake Livingston dam and lose it’s largest water source so off shore nourishment is and will continue to be needed indefinitely along that part of the coastal barrier system.
Excellent and informative information. Just not sure how it effects the outer banks.
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