Want tax dollars? Don’t blame erosion - blame global warming.
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.
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.