Posted on 01/13/2022 7:37:20 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Waikiki Beach is often where visitors first fall in love with Hawaii. Its soft sand, calm and inviting waters and view of Leahi (aka Diamond Head) are known worldwide. Once home to Hawaiian royalty, Waikiki is now a popular tourist destination, generating 41% of the state’s tourism revenue in 2015.
But climate change threatens the iconic beach. With global sea levels conservatively estimated to rise at least 3 feet by 2100, Waikiki Beach may not be around at the turn of the century. Some scientists think Waikiki Beach could disappear even sooner.
On the island of Maui, two opposing groups are squaring off over bringing in sand or moving buildings back to address the issue of erosion at Kaanapali Beach, another popular tourist destination. Of all the islands, Maui has the highest rate of erosion, with 85% of its beaches degraded and 4 miles totally lost.
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On the other hand, it could not.
Tell me when real estate prices are dropping on the beach.
Uh-huh. Meanwhile these same green concerned liberals keep buying land near the beach…
The oceans are rising so fast and so dangerously that Obama bought waterfront property on Martha’s Vineyard.
Even if happens, surfers won’t care. They will just go elsewhere.
Not to worry,it’s a demonRAT stronghold, the then RAT leadership will find a way to save it.
Beaches erode. That is what they do, always have. They seem to disappear because we place man-made structures behind them that do not allow them to expand inland as they normally would.
The ocean giveth...and the ocean taketh away.
“If you put the government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.”
Winston Churchill
Where will all this water come from?
Given the science-challenged media’s abysmal record of climate change predictions during the past few decades, I’d give this prediction a roughly 0.001 % chance of actually occurring.
but there will be more land available on Greenland !
Or it COULD NOT...
Seen any old pictures of Waikiki from the 50s or even the old Hawaii 5-O shows? Except for the buildings, it looks the same...
As they should. Beaches can be and are rebuilt, often by nature, also by man.
Beaches, islands, villages/towns/cities, etc have been disappearing for millions of years. It’s simple climate change. Live with it.
Sure, they can claim anything is gonna happen at the end of the century.
Macaques will control 50% of the world’s wealth by the end of the century. Kieth Richards will be president by the end of the century. Progressives will acquire an insatiable taste for sh*t sandwiches by the end of the century.
Prove me wrong.
Understand that Hawaii is a mountain that is/was made from a volcano. Measured from it’s base, it is one of the tallest mountains on earth. It happens to be in a deep part of the ocean so only the upper portion of the mountain forms the island that we see.
Sand and rocks, due to gravity and erosion, naturally flow down the mountain towards it’s base due to gravity. No need for panic.
Outside of the normal climate BS put out b y the climate cultist (for the most part the same idiots as the covid cultist) the beaches in Hawaii are covered with the homeless anyway thanks to Hawaii’s liberal shxtstorm of a government.
Last time I was there the whole island of Oahu had homeless encampments all along the highways. Disgusting to say the least.
The same people who told us 20 years ago that we only have 10 years to save the planet.
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