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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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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........
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.
Interesting. I guess sea levels are different. Hasn’t changed a bit up here in SC.
It’s called natural beach erosion!!
It’s been going on since God separated the land from the sea!!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Good luck with that one!
Seashore not protected by jetties or similar man-made structures are constantly being washed away by waves and tides.
Brevard County, Florida ping.Not to mention Cape Cod. The current Cape did not exist 300 years ago. The sand is constantly shifting above and below water.
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