Yep, they have been so dead on for the last two years.../S
Posted on 11/13/2007 4:39:12 PM PST by Rb ver. 2.0
CAROLINA BEACH - As sea level continues to rise, North Carolina communities that have relied on beach renourishment programs will find it harder and harder to keep up with the ocean's onslought, a federal scientist told beach community and state officials today.
Jeff Williams, a marine geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, said some global warming projections forecast more frequent hurricanes, which cause the most rapid and dramatic beach erosion. Many North Carolina towns have funded dredging projects that replenish sand that has washed away.
But Williams told a gathering of about 100 people at a meeting of the North Carolina Beach Inlet and Waterway Association, an advocacy group for beach communities, that the efforts may work for awhile, but are a temporary and expensive fix.
The beach group held a two-day meeting that examined how global warming would affect the state's coastline. Scientists have projected that warmer temperatures will cause the polar ice caps to melt, raising sea levels.
Another speaker, Margaret Davidson, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's coastal services center in Charleston, S.C., said local communities should expect to pay more of the costs for coastal problems. She said the federal budget deficit is rising faster than sea levels.
Yes, eventually North America will be reduced to a spit of land somewhere around Wyoming.
This is good news. I’ll be able to buy prime beachfront property for a song from gullible liberals sooner than I thought.
Aren’t the Outer Banks suppose to be gone in the future, sort of like Venice?
A quick look at the map of North Carolina, indeed most of the eastern seaboard, makes it apparent that the ocean level is higher now than it was in the past. So what’s new here?
Hey, it’s November 13, and tonight here in the Midwest I was happily cooking ribs on the grill wearing a sweatshirt. If this is global warming, I say “Bring it on!!!”
Is this article from 2005? The new memo is that there will be less hurricanes, but they will be more intense.
We wish! Natural currents and winds are moving the barrier island beaches to the southeast north of Buxton.
The greatest beach erosion results from northeastereners especially those at the spring equinox in march.
The barrier islands are ephemeral and the boundries are constantly moving.
CAROLINA BEACH - As sea level continues to rise, North Carolina communities that have relied on beach renourishment programs will find it harder and harder to keep up with the ocean's onslought, a federal scientist told beach community and state officials today.Which is it? Rising sea levels or beach erosion? Those aren't the same thing.
Jeff Williams, a marine geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, said some global warming projections forecast more frequent hurricanes, which cause the most rapid and dramatic beach erosion. Many North Carolina towns have funded dredging projects that replenish sand that has washed away.
Yep, they have been so dead on for the last two years.../S
Not gone, just moved around. In my 40 years of visits, the change in the land location is remarkably changed.
Places where I pitched a tent are now in the ocean. Land at Cape Hatteras point is a half a mile away from where it was before.
What with the Antarctic getting colder at what seems like a much faster rate than the Arctic is getting warmer, South Carolina better start thinking about selling off all the new beachfront property.
The Antarctic has been getting colder by 0.7 degrees per decade. I believe the global warming they’ve talked about has been on the order of 1.0 degrees per century.
You’re not supposed to catch that!
The migration of vast quantities of sand on the outer banks is as predictable as the sunrise/sunset.
I’m sure we’ll hear about that being affected by global warming at some point too.
Yep, them snowbirds trod pretty heavy, lol.
In fact, a landslide off a mid-Atlantic volcano could generate a tsunami that could wipe out whole cities on the Eastern seaboard.
Not to mention they mess up the fishing too!
And of course the fact that the Outer Banks have been moving away from the coast since time began or the massive undertow in the Graveyard of the Atlantic has nothing to do with the changes happening on the Banks
I'd give good money to slug just one of these federal 'officials' that have been mucking about on the Banks for years with fixes for practically everything. I suppose global warming is causing the inlets to open and close as they have been recorded doing for the past 400 years too..
The only 'good' side effect of any of this would perhaps be if every one of those half ass built houses north of Nags Head were to fall into the sea. The ones that destroyed probably the most beautiful stretch of beach God has ever created. Then I might feel a little better about it.
I spend time fishing on the isolated NC barrier islands south of Ocracoke. When you are there you’re stuck until the next ferry arrives and you’re only getting on if you have a reservation. I’ve actually formulated a plan in my mind as to what I’d do if I saw the surf recede, pre-tsunami.
On the plus side, I can’t think of anybody else that’ll buy a nonconforming oceanfront lot.
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