Later in the article, they just HAD to throw in climate change. Those places have been eroding forever. All that’s changed is stupid people building there.
Yup. Beach erosion has been going on for millions of years. This has NOTHING to do with Climate Change. But the communist apparatchiks like to gloss over the real facts and just drop some hints that maybe you should build a windmill.
Cape Cod itself isn’t exactly a barrier island, but its geomorphological dynamics are going to be the same. Barrier islands are always moving and rolling and changing. It’s a gamble to build on them at all.