Beaches regularly erode and tt has nothing to do with AGW or “rising water levels”. The formation and migration of sand is an ongoing geologic process that is more complex than most people realize. The California coast is especially susceptible since the coastal areas are highly active. The currents, waves and mountains combine to create a beautiful, but highly unstable, environment. It’s called nature, and man’s efforts at “preservation” are short-sighted and often more harmful than helpful.
“Stabilizing” efforts such as riprap and seawalls creates a deficit of sediment and exacerbates the issue. Mitigation efforts are costly and rarely effective long term and none of it has anything to do with global warming. All coasts constantly change, and attempting to capture and maintain a particular state is unnatural, and ultimately reveals the hubris of environmentalists. After all, a butterfly under glass is pretty, but the insect probably didn’t get the best end of the deal.
I am aware she’s stuck on misinformation, I mean, she’s from Kalifornia and in her 80’s. By 80’s, I mean she has relied on the MSM as a little girl, and with Walter Cronkite being “The Most Trusted Man In America”, she feels the CNN folks are his equal.
She’s also big sis, the eldest of siblings, generally, us little kids to not talk back. LOL.
Al Gore assured me that northern polar ice sheet would be non-existent by this time some 12 years ago. Russia was even making plans to claim certain new water-ways and territory. And what happen to all those multiple devasting hurricanes that were supposed to hit one after another? Yes, we just had Andrew - hurricanes happen. Where are those swarms for the last 10 years?
Now I read that some scientists/climatologists are predicting a coming mini-Ice Age. During all my years I've come to the conclusion the climatology is an IN-EXACT science. Their models are never fact...just theory. Crap in - crap out.