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As rising sea level chomps at Cape Canaveral, NASA uses nature-friendly solution (Bull*** alert)
Stars and Stripes ^ | 12/31/14 | Pittman

Posted on 12/31/2014 10:11:53 AM PST by pabianice

Along Florida's most famous slice of waterfront, the water is taking a bigger and bigger bite. As the level of the Atlantic Ocean has pushed higher, it has begun gobbling up the shoreline along Cape Canaveral.

A railroad that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration built along the beach in the 1960s began being routinely covered by waves during storms. Meanwhile, dunes were leveled that once protected Kennedy Space Center, no matter how high the tide.

Scientists from the University of Florida and the U.S. Geological Survey began studying the problem in 2009, finding that what was going on could not be explained by typical Florida beach erosion. This was climate change at work, with a warmer ocean expanding beyond its old bounds.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarming; nasa; sealevel
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To: pabianice

Surely sealevel rise is proven by the halting of sea shore construction in places like Miami and by all those ultra wealthy people with connections who are dumping their sea-side mansions at cut rate prices and fleeing to higher ground.

Oh, wait........


21 posted on 12/31/2014 10:56:17 AM PST by Rockpile
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To: pabianice

I took a tour of the Cape in 2014.
I didn’t see anything flooded or damaged from high water.
The Cape is one BIG beach 6” above sea level.

If NASA was worried about it, they wouldn’t have built it there.
They were clearly more worried about hurricanes based on how the VAB was constructed.


22 posted on 12/31/2014 10:59:25 AM PST by Zathras
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To: pabianice

Interesting. I guess sea levels are different. Hasn’t changed a bit up here in SC.


23 posted on 12/31/2014 11:02:43 AM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: pabianice

It’s called natural beach erosion!!

It’s been going on since God separated the land from the sea!!!


25 posted on 12/31/2014 11:13:49 AM PST by G Larry (Amnesty imposes SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL immigrants & minorities)
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To: pabianice
Meanwhile, dunes were leveled that once protected Kennedy Space Center, no matter how high the tide.

What a bunch of horse sh!t!

I've been at KSC for nearly 28 yrs. and worked at the Seawater Immersion Facility.

Except for a hurricane(s), there's never been a concern of high tides crossing the dune lines.

26 posted on 12/31/2014 11:31:23 AM PST by mcmuffin (Freedom's On The March - Wave Goodbye!)
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To: pabianice

I guess those little boogers are out there measuring ocean temperatures and comparing them with what they were 70 years ago, when the waters were a half inch lower, give or take a quarter of an inch. What is really going on is a quest for grant money, and global warming trumps ordinary erosion.


27 posted on 12/31/2014 12:46:49 PM PST by pallis
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To: pabianice
Sea level can't rise. Sea level is always sea level.
28 posted on 12/31/2014 1:01:47 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: Don Corleone
My question also. Subsidence is a well-documented geological phenomenon, whereas "rising sea levels" can be better described as cargo cult science hokum.

Wherever you have some loony leftist running around sniveling about the dangers of "rising sea levels," you also have a moron who says, "Subsidence? What's that?"
29 posted on 12/31/2014 1:08:59 PM PST by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: pabianice

Total garbage article, because weirdly enough, the ocean seems to be “rising” only at Cape Canaveral as the rest of the eastern seaboard pretty much seems to be OK. Of course, that would defy the laws of physics, but what the hey.

All that’s going on is ordinary, garden variety beach erosion, where sand is washed from one beach to another. One beach grows, another shrinks, and back and forth it goes, as it has for many, many centuries.

Too bad the vast majority of Americans are completely ignorant of almost everything sciencey due to the focus of government schools on teaching socialism to the exclusion of pretty much everything else.


30 posted on 12/31/2014 1:20:04 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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garden variety beach erosion

Actually, it's the millions of pounds of thrust from the huge rocket engines repeatedly pushing the Cape's real estate down into the ocean when they launch.

31 posted on 12/31/2014 1:39:35 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: pabianice
So, industry is causing global warming? Since we've allowed most industry to find its way to China this sounds like a problem between environmentalists and China.

Good luck with that one!

32 posted on 12/31/2014 1:43:35 PM PST by The Duke
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To: pabianice

Seashore not protected by jetties or similar man-made structures are constantly being washed away by waves and tides.


33 posted on 12/31/2014 3:50:37 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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Brevard County, Florida ping.

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34 posted on 12/31/2014 6:07:07 PM PST by NonValueAdded (Pointing out dereliction of duty is NOT fear mongering, especially in a panDEMic)
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To: elpadre

Not to mention Cape Cod. The current Cape did not exist 300 years ago. The sand is constantly shifting above and below water.


35 posted on 01/02/2015 8:59:46 AM PST by pabianice (LINE)
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