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Rising Sea Level Big Concern Along S.C.
Associated Press ^ | December 07, 2006 | Unknown

Posted on 12/07/2006 4:18:56 PM PST by decimon

CHARLESTON, S.C. - Global warming and a rise in sea levels could dramatically affect South Carolina's coast, according to scientists and environmental officials meeting at a conference in Charleston this week.

The rising ocean is "going to shave off a ton of landscape along the coast," which could drown marshes that act as buffers for storm surge, raising the likelihood of major flooding when the next hurricane hits, said Jim Morris, marine studies professor at the University of South Carolina and director of its Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences.

Morris was at the Southeast Regional Workshop on The Nation's Coasts, hosted by the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment. The organization wants to help communities deal with rising sea levels associated with global warming.

The state's beach management law calls for a gradual retreat of new development from the seashore, but building pressures continue from Cherry Grove to Hilton Head Island, said Braxton Davis, a scientist with the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control's coastal office.

That could be dangerous with scientists warning the ocean could extend 100 feet or more inland in the next century.

Water temperatures also are rising and that could bring additional problems to South Carolina's coastal waters.

Three summers ago, a married couple became ill from eating a toxin-polluted barracuda that had been caught off the South Carolina coast.

The poisoning is normally associated with species in more tropical Caribbean waters, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But as warm waters expand northward, tropical fish, and potentially new hazards, are following into the South Atlantic's waters, experts said.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: chickenlittle; climatechange; coastalenvironment; globalwarming; theskyisfalling; wereallgonnadie
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To: King Moonracer

That's rich.


41 posted on 12/07/2006 4:56:24 PM PST by Nasty McPhilthy (Those who beat their swords into plow shears….will plow for those who don’t.)
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To: Cyman
I thought that was it too but I found out that it was the ground that was rising and falling.

Yes, of course. The Earth is a living organism that breathes in and out.

42 posted on 12/07/2006 4:58:24 PM PST by decimon
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To: dhuffman@awod.com

Interesting. Just what term do they use to refer to this theory?


43 posted on 12/07/2006 4:58:29 PM PST by Nasty McPhilthy (Those who beat their swords into plow shears….will plow for those who don’t.)
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To: upchuck
We're all gonna drown!!

Well, except for those smart enough to build a two story......

44 posted on 12/07/2006 5:00:21 PM PST by MACVSOG68
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To: wireman

Exactly what I thought. I don't know anyone who eats cuda.;-)


45 posted on 12/07/2006 5:00:53 PM PST by Nasty McPhilthy (Those who beat their swords into plow shears….will plow for those who don’t.)
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To: decimon
Global warming and a rise in sea levels could dramatically affect South Carolina's coast, according to scientists and environmental officials meeting at a conference in Charleston this week.

I wish these officials would spend more time in Minnesota addressing our concerns for global warming.

Since global warming became a topic of concern and many have reaped riches and popularity because of it, our black bear no longer sh!t in the woods.

46 posted on 12/07/2006 5:00:59 PM PST by EGPWS
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To: Popman; decimon
H. John Heinz III Center for Science

Yup. That right.

Mrs. Jon Carry is funding this study

Now we know why she named her foundation "the Tides Foundation". /grin

47 posted on 12/07/2006 5:01:02 PM PST by tarheelswamprat (So what if I'm not rich? So what if I'm not one of the beautiful people? At least I'm not smart...)
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To: BenLurkin



http://www.fathersforlife.org/REA/warming10.htm

If you read this article, you will see the factual case that there may have been no statistically significant rise in the sea level since 1840. Now, the Carolinas may be sinking like Louisiana ...


48 posted on 12/07/2006 5:03:49 PM PST by Sundog (Have you watched a good sunset lately?)
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To: decimon
That could be dangerous with scientists warning the ocean could extend 100 feet or more inland in the next century.

Sheesh! What poppycock! Erosion alone could do better than that in the next century.

49 posted on 12/07/2006 5:07:01 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: Plutarch

land in greenland should be cheap, it is a huge island with a population of about 60,000 with a stable gov


50 posted on 12/07/2006 5:08:24 PM PST by antti tuuri
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To: decimon
going to shave off a ton of landscape along the coast,

Hmmm. One ton of landscape, 180 or so miles of coast....

What's the problem?

51 posted on 12/07/2006 5:16:02 PM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: kinoxi

That's a good question. It's hard to measure sea level. What do you compare it to in order to measure it?


52 posted on 12/07/2006 5:30:58 PM PST by SuzyQue (Remember to think.)
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To: BenLurkin
There's some island in the Pacific that the global warming crowd used to point to as the first that would go under water. Year after year nothing happened to the island and about 10 years ago they dropped it -- it was a few inches above sea level, and it's still a few inches above sea level. I don't remember the name...

My home is on the edge of a mangrove - with a salt water stream at the end of my back yard - and as far as I can tell the stream height follows the same tidal patterns it always has -- it's only at a sustained higher level when a hurricane is within a hundred miles. My home is supposed to be 12 feet above sea level - but when I stand by the water and look at the house it seems more like 8 feet. If I see a change in water level, I'll let you know.

53 posted on 12/07/2006 5:36:44 PM PST by GOPJ (Male homosexuality-worse for your health than sugar, transfats, obesity, and SUV's together.)
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To: SuzyQue
That's a good question. It's hard to measure sea level. What do you compare it to in order to measure it?

Different areas of land rise and fall at different rates as well. There can be no definitive measurement from 'one point' of dry land due to natural geologic processes. Not to mention natural erosion which is rather extreme along many parts of worldwide seashores.
54 posted on 12/07/2006 5:39:07 PM PST by kinoxi
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To: GOPJ

Tuvalu.


55 posted on 12/07/2006 5:39:39 PM PST by kinoxi
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To: kinoxi

Exactly.

However, Al Gore seems to have the definitive answer. Which is enough to convince me it's nonsense.


56 posted on 12/07/2006 5:51:36 PM PST by SuzyQue (Remember to think.)
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To: Plutarch

Great point. I wondered why these same elitist liberals happen to own beachfront property?


57 posted on 12/07/2006 5:54:04 PM PST by Hoodat ( ETERNITY - Smoking, or Non-smoking?)
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To: JennysCool
"grant fund raising" surely it can't be.
58 posted on 12/07/2006 5:58:01 PM PST by nomorelurker (wetraginhell)
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To: kinoxi
I live and work here in Beaufort county and spend a lot of time on the water. I have noticed dead trees along the New River and places where the marsh seems to be receding. However, I feel that land and water levels DO rise and fall, sometimes dramatically. The islands around here have been eroding for centuries. Just look at Hunting Island - I've seen inlets opened by "normal" storms and most of the old campground now lies offshore.


The sandbar in the foreground was dry land not long ago;
and the marshy spot halfway down the beach is now open to the sea again.

59 posted on 12/07/2006 6:01:54 PM PST by SquirrelKing
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To: decimon
according to scientists and environmental officials meeting at a conference in Charleston this week.

Without names and credentials, they might as well say neurotics in therapy or recovering alcoholics.

Al Gore thinks he's a scientist, fercryinoutloud!

60 posted on 12/07/2006 7:06:40 PM PST by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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