Posted on 05/03/2024 4:14:12 AM PDT by Libloather
I’ve been going to the exact same spot on the exact same NC beach for over seventy years. It looks exactly like it used to.
GILLIGAN!
“My land in Newport NC is still 7 inches above sealevel at high tide. Been that way since we bought it 16 years ago.”
Thanks for that data point. I haven’t seen any stories complaining of the sea gobbling up NC beaches, but don’t they regularly replenish NC beaches? Why’s that?
“Climate change” is simply not what some people imagine it to be. It is today’s boogie man, a malign spirit conjured up to frighten and subjugate the fearful and those of weak convictions. Simply stating that the “sea levels are rising” and will overwhelm our coastal cities is a myth propagated on the basis on just about nothing at all. There is, in some localities, subsidence of the land, so there is an APPEARANCE of “rising” sea level, but it is not due to melting of the polar ice caps. At the north pole, the melting of ALL the ice would make not one whit of difference in sea level, as the volume of ice which FLOATS on water, then shrinks to the volume of the water it displaced, not changing the level.
But that is scientific reasoning, which is anathema to the “climate specialists”.
“Climate change is steadily raising sea levels around the world, but the Gulf of Mexico is rising faster than almost anywhere else in the world.
‘It’s irreversible,’ Jianjun Yin, a climate scientist at the University of Arizona”
So a Chinese scientist, in Arizona, studying the ocean, thinks the sea levels are rising 6 or 7 inches a year, but only in the south. That sounds right. I remember last week I was having iced tea. The ice melted and it flowed over, but only on one side of the rim. Very odd. This scientist will be famous soon. I mean discovering that water does not seek its own level anymore. Amazing.
For some reason, the Plymouth Rock is exactly the same as it was in 1620... right on the water’s edge.
“It’s irreversible”
But we need to throw money at it anyhow???
Cultists
Yes…. That was literally an episode of Gilligan’s Island.
“which experts said was made worse by sinking land”
Not “made worse” but the biggest cause.
Subsidence in coastal areas is a normal issue of natural geologic and weathering forces. It’s what happens at every ocean coastline. And the less rocky the coastline the more easily it is noticeable.
Whatever happened to water seeking its own level?
Haven’t we all seen water that has higher points on its surface and rivulets?
Talk about a load of crap.
I suspect that is the sole reason ocean waters appear to be rising.
I was taught in my high school physics class that water seeks its own level.
And if ocean tides seem to be increasing, that could be due to the changing gravitational pull of the moon.
It’s because so many illegals have invaded the South, that the land mass can’t handle the weight, and has sunk down.
tried for years to stack my bathwater at one end of the tub but was never successful. now with this new information I’m going to try again. it must be possible because it’s science!
land is not fixed. Some areas are rising and some have subsidence. Both of those land elevation changes have everything do with geology and hydrology. Man-caused climate change is a hoax and nonsense. Climate variability is real, but has not shown any consistence sea level change trends.
“Global tilting from Hank Johnson school of geology.”
Yes, Tides fluctuate throughout the year in any one particular location due to tilt. And land is always sinking from the weight of building.
Believe it or not, the earth’s crust also has it’s own tides too.
Perhaps this is some side effect of the moon? As we know, the moon is responsible for the tidal actions on the earth and nobody seems to be considering that some of this might be a result of changes in the moon? Or changes in the the moon’s orbit around the earth? Maybe we should create a “Star Wars” deathstar to put in orbit around the earth to counter the effects of the moon’s high tides?
These people are idiots.
An analysis by who? LOL!
Maybe the land is sinking?
My suggestion, tell me how much the water level rises in Tampa Bay? I looked at old photos of the Tampa Bay region and except for high-rises, it seems the same!
If this is true, coastal property values should be dropping like a rock, right?
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