As rising sea level chomps at Cape Canaveral, NASA uses nature-friendly solution (Bull*** alert)

Stars and Stripes ^ | 12/31/14 | Pittman

[Rockpile]

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........

[Zathras]

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.

[mikey_hates_everything]

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

[G Larry]

It’s called natural beach erosion!!

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

[mcmuffin]

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.

[pallis]

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.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Sea level can't rise. Sea level is always sea level.

[Milton Miteybad]

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?"

[catnipman]

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.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

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.

[The Duke]

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!

[elpadre]

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

[NonValueAdded]

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[pabianice]

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