Posted on 03/22/2021 9:41:21 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
The Outer Banks of North Carolina has a problem that the New York Times tries to bury in order to hype their "rising sea" narrative as part of their broader climate change shtick. And what is the problem that the Times wants to avoid focusing upon because they have another agenda? Beach erosion.
Yup! That's it. It is a common problem on many beaches, including in South Florida which the New York Times is also avoiding in order to promote the narrative that the seas are rapidly rising. Perhaps the seas are rising (or falling) but that sea level change is something that happens very slowly over many centuries, not a matter of several feet in just a few years.
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In California, the beach erosion is linked to Dams on rivers. Not climate change. Sand and silt that normally flowed freely to the ocean and worked it’s way down the coast to Souther California has stopped due to the Damming up of the rivers for water storage. Also building jetty to break up big waves capture sand so it doesn’t continue flowing south.
If there was any rising in sea levels, the entire Florida Keys would be underwater by now..
The tidal Rapphannock River in Virginia is right where it has always been. All of the old docks and seawalls have the same tide lines and barnacles as they did in 1965 when I first started the visit the area. No reliable source has ever suggested the river and Chesapeake Bay are higher by so many inches than in 1965. That’s because there is no such evidence.
How can the ocean be rising in New York without rising in all tidal areas?
Where I live is 74 miles from the beach and 62 feet above sea level. If there was significant a significant sea level rise, we have a beach front condo. That would be great!
To the beach!
Deltaville bump,, at pretty much sea level for 400+ years.
That's why they never cite data from the past. Instead they use computer PROJECTIONS of the future.
Michael Savage has been using tide-tables since the 70’s due to his sailing hobby, and says there has been no discernible change average sea level. Of course we all here know the whole thing is government sponsored hokum.
Yes, exactly.
I lived in South Florida 35 years ago.
We were 7 miles inland from Hollywood Beach,
and our house was 7 feet above sea level.
It is all still there.
I’ve been going to the Outer Banks off and on since my parents took me in the early 1970s. There has always been beach erosion, occasionally deposits. Inlets open, inlets close. The Outer Banks are literally piles of sand in the ocean, with all the instability and variability that implies. To use them as an example of rising sea levels is foolish and disingenuous in the extreme. If they are going to claim the oceans are rising every time some sand erodes away, then they have to similarly claim ocean levels are receding every time a barrier dune builds up. That would mean they’d be changing their story ever few weeks...Well, for the NYT that’s probably well within what passes for editorial policy now. They’re a complete rag. I’d believe stories in the checkout line rags before anything in the NYT.
The Outer Banks are migrating barrier islands. They will eventually merge with the mainland and new islands will form.
Liberals can sure be ... well, never mind.
The outer banks and other barrier islands were constantly shifting and moving, but now because we have built houses along the beachfront, we constantly replenish the sand. The dugout intercoastal waterway, which is continually dredged doesn’t help matters.
Who cares about climate change? If I’m going to be concerned about something like that, I’m far more worried about whatever forces of nature put sea shells 12,000+ feet above sea level.
Wasn’t Mar a Lago supposed to be under water by now?
Because democrat strongholds are special.
Obama’s mansion on Martha’s Vineyard is only three feet above sea level at high tide. If he is not worried about rising seas why should we be worried.
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