Posted on 06/25/2007 7:48:40 AM PDT by ZGuy
I think Noah was the greatest “sea-level specialist”...hey, he saved the animals with the Ark :-)
I'm not a scientist (duh). Is this just normal beach erosion or is the sea level higher over the last three decades?
This argument about whether sea level is rising, or not, isn’t new. What does it tell us when scientists can’t even agree if that’s true, or not?
I'm reminded of an old Mad Magazine "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions", where some buffoon is asking an elevator occupant if they are going 'UP'. The answer is: "No, you must be going DOWN".
Could it be that St. Algore has it wrong and South Dakota won’t become an ocean beach in the next 10 years or less?
Dang, I was planning on buying some land in Nebraska or SD and start building my resort hotel with catamarans and jet skis...
The Jersey shore is being eroded and it has nothing to do with a “rising sea level.”
It has to do with a natural barrier that had protected the coast being eroded because of storms and to the fact that the shores are long, flat sand bars with no protection, thus the water tends to pull the sand out into the water rather than pushing more sand up on the beach.
The currents of the ocean tend to erode some shores while building up others.
Makes sense. I see some places in California and I think Honolulu where they constantly add sand to the beach.
I’m as skeptical of CAGW as the next Freeper, but I did a little research on this guy last night, and he sounds like a bit of a crank. Which is unfortunate, b/c his science could be sound.
According to this guy in the article, the erosion is more likely to be caused by falling sea level that rising.
"We had an island, where there was heavy erosion, everything was falling into the sea, trees and so on. But if you looked at what happened: The sand which disappeared there, if the sea level had gone up, that sand would have been placed higher, on top of the previous land. But it is being placed below the previous beach. We can see the previous beach, and it is 20-30 cm above the current beach. So this is erosion because the sea level fell, not because the sea level rose. And it is more common that erosion is caused by falling sea level, than by rising sea level.
It does not sound intuitive until you think about it, but a falling level is more likely to carry sand away while a rising level would likely deposit more sand.
What gets me about this is how the IPCC is simply changing data to fit their computer models rather than changing the models to fit the data.
That is not just junk science --- that is fraud.
YEP, what YOU said, Ghost.....storms cause the problems....we have the same problem on the Oregon Coast where my in-laws have a beachhouse (one street off the beach)....we hadn’t been there for 2 years, and went, and saw amazing changes to the beach....sea walls that were 6-10 ft tall, where a very gently sloping beach had been, etc.....since then, it’s flattened out again.....Mother Nature at work.
“we have to pay for our damage and the floo-ding.”
I’m not payin’ for anyone’s floo-ding! I hate Chinese food!
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Parts of Indonesia are several feet more above sea level than they were several years ago.
Thanx! One of these days I’m going to finish that science class.
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