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Geology professor: NC beaches, beach homes 'doomed' due to climate change
WTVD-TV Raleigh-Durham ^ | August 21, 2018 | By John Clark

Posted on 08/21/2018 1:32:54 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

"These beaches are doomed."

Those are the sobering words from Duke University geology professor emeritus Orrin Pilkey, who told our media partners at the News & Observer that the days are numbered for North Carolina's beaches.

"The buildings are doomed, too," he said.

Pilkey, who is also the founder and director emeritus of the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines at Western Carolina University, has been sounding the alarm about rising sea levels for decades.

Pilkey said rising sea levels are an imminent threat to North Carolina's 18 barrier islands and to the Inner Banks, the areas just behind them.

Pilkey called spending millions to dredge sand from the bottom of the ocean and then pile it onto beaches in order to restore them, "an exercise in futility."

His advice for those who own beachfront property? Get out.

"If my parents were to ask me where to buy a house in North Carolina," Pilkey told the newspaper, "I would tell them to stick to the mainland. People living there now should be taking a long view."

(Excerpt) Read more at abc11.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dukeuniversity; fakescience; geologist; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hoax; incompetent; orrinpilkey; propaganda; socialism
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ORRIN H. PILKEY

1 posted on 08/21/2018 1:32:54 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

ANNNNDDDDDD Property values just tanked. lol.


2 posted on 08/21/2018 1:33:51 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (HTTP 500 - Internal Server Error)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The sky is falling, the sky is falling!!!


3 posted on 08/21/2018 1:34:21 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If true we should be able to buy the homes there for ten cents in the dollar.

But it is not true, obviously.


4 posted on 08/21/2018 1:35:19 PM PDT by Persevero (Democrats haven't been this nutty since we freed their slaves.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Fortunately for Orrin he’ll be dead before his dire predictions of global catastrophe are discredited.


5 posted on 08/21/2018 1:35:24 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Anyone who knows anything about those barrier islands knows they are constantly changing and shifting.

Only the words “climate change” have been added to give the prediction leggs.


6 posted on 08/21/2018 1:36:37 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Pilkey has been sounding the alarm about rising sea levels for decades...

Like Linus waiting for the Great Pumpkin.

7 posted on 08/21/2018 1:37:20 PM PDT by dead
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It wouldn’t take much of rise in sea level to make living on Cape Hatteras and the Outer Banks dicey.


8 posted on 08/21/2018 1:37:42 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He must have gone to the beach at high tide.


9 posted on 08/21/2018 1:38:25 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

10 posted on 08/21/2018 1:39:13 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BenLurkin

When the America was discovered, Ocracoke was attached to Hatteras. Then the SUV’s came......


11 posted on 08/21/2018 1:39:42 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: BenLurkin
to make living on Cape Hatteras and the Outer Banks dicey

Living on the barrier islands has always been dicey. They are natural unstable, regardless of average temperatures.

12 posted on 08/21/2018 1:40:07 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Those barrier islands have been moving inland for eons.


13 posted on 08/21/2018 1:40:38 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Beaches change. That’s geology.


14 posted on 08/21/2018 1:40:45 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ahhhh. More spew from DOOK University


15 posted on 08/21/2018 1:40:52 PM PDT by Hyman Roth
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bttt


16 posted on 08/21/2018 1:43:06 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: marktwain

It seems to me that what is happening now is a shift back to “climate change” because “immigration” issue isn’t giving the DNC enough momentum for the midterms.


17 posted on 08/21/2018 1:43:08 PM PDT by marstegreg
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To: onedoug

OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?


18 posted on 08/21/2018 1:43:53 PM PDT by abclily
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Is that Rose colored glasses he’s wearing ,LOL


19 posted on 08/21/2018 1:45:00 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature
ANNNNDDDDDD Property values just tanked. lol.

Yeah, that's what kills me. These frauds keep saying this and yet property values in liberal wealthy areas like Manhattan and Miami Beach keep on rising. This tells me that they don't really believe their own press clippings. As for OBX, look for yourself:



January 2018 Outer Banks Real Estate Market Report

When these prices start plummeting, then you'll know that the wealthy actually believe the global warming BS.
20 posted on 08/21/2018 1:47:20 PM PDT by Antoninus ("In Washington, swamp drain you.")
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