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Erosion has claimed more than 1,000 acres of South Carolina’s barrier islands — a trend of land loss that’s only expected to increase as the climate warms.
Over the past 25 years, 1,200 acres have been washed away from four barrier islands in the Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge, South Carolina’s Island Packet reported Monday. On Hunting Island, almost 15 feet of land is washed away each year — the island’s state park used to rent out 10 beach houses to visitors, but due to erosion’s effects on roads and property in the area, it now rents out only one. With sea levels in the Southeast expected to rise by up to 5 feet by the end of this century, erosion on Hunting and the rest of South Carolina’s barrier islands is predicted to worsen.
South Carolina isn’t the only state to experience a climate change-driven increase in erosion over the last several years. In Alaska, a combination of melting permafrost, sea level rise, melting sea ice and increasing incidence of floods have led to erosion that’s caused major problems for coastal residents. The coastal village of Newtok, Alaska may be completely underwater by 2017 — and it’s just one of the 86 percent of native communities in Alaska threatened by climate change’s effects. And in the past 80 years, Louisiana has lost 1,880 square miles of coastal marshes — which averages out to a football field’s worth of wetlands each day — to erosion, a result of sinking land and sea level rise.
You ever been out of your mommas basement? You ever been to New Orleans? You ever been to the French Quarter?
I bet you haven't kid.
Why is the river higher than the city? Before we all ran with fossil fuels?
You ever been out of your mommas basement? You ever been to New Orleans? You ever been to the French Quarter?
I bet you haven't kid.
Why is the river higher than the city? Before we all ran with fossil fuels?
The city used to be above sea level when it was built. Now it is sinking.
New Orleans is probably going to be flooded the next big cane it gets...No wall or not.
Bad place to have a city!
Farm land is disappearing at the rate of 2 acres per minute...
Hundreds of thousands of acres across the globe have disappeared due to erosion, urban development, and overuse over the last century. The American Farmland Trust estimates that farmland is disappearing at a rate of 2 acres per minute.
Farmland Forecast: World Running Out of Farmland
Why do we continually turn a blind eye to the true destroyers of environment... the farmer?
Farm land is disappearing at the rate of 2 acres per minute...
Hundreds of thousands of acres across the globe have disappeared due to erosion, urban development, and overuse over the last century. The American Farmland Trust estimates that farmland is disappearing at a rate of 2 acres per minute.
Farmland Forecast: World Running Out of Farmland
Why do we continually turn a blind eye to the true destroyers of environment... the farmer?
Farming to maximize the profit, rather than maximize the continued productivity of the soil and make a profit while doing that is the problem. We cannot survive without the farmer. An urban society has to have farmers that produce far more than they consume.
There is a large wheat farm near Yakima where you can tell the boundries with a glance. At the fences, his land is three feet higher than that of the neighboring farms. For three generations they have been practicing no till farming, using a minimum of fertalizers, and using rotation. Their crops are only two thirds that of the neighbors, but their costs are less than half. Very little erosion, and their soil is not 'burned', still has a healthy ecology of microbes and invertabrates. But they are a family farm. Corperations put value only on the bottom line.
New Orleans is probably going to be flooded the next big cane it gets...No wall or not.
Bad place to have a city!
1,200 Acres Of South Carolinas Barrier Islands Have Washed Away In The Last 25 Years
Erosion has claimed more than 1,000 acres of South Carolinas barrier islands a trend of land loss thats only expected to increase as the climate warms.
Over the past 25 years, 1,200 acres have been washed away from four barrier islands in the Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge, South Carolinas Island Packet reported Monday. On Hunting Island, almost 15 feet of land is washed away each year the islands state park used to rent out 10 beach houses to visitors, but due to erosions effects on roads and property in the area, it now rents out only one. With sea levels in the Southeast expected to rise by up to 5 feet by the end of this century, erosion on Hunting and the rest of South Carolinas barrier islands is predicted to worsen.
1,200 Acres Of South Carolina's Barrier Islands Have Washed Away In The Last 25 Years | ThinkProgress
South Carolina isnt the only state to experience a climate change-driven increase in erosion over the last several years. In Alaska, a combination of melting permafrost, sea level rise, melting sea ice and increasing incidence of floods have led to erosion thats caused major problems for coastal residents. The coastal village of Newtok, Alaska may be completely underwater by 2017 and its just one of the 86 percent of native communities in Alaska threatened by climate changes effects. And in the past 80 years, Louisiana has lost 1,880 square miles of coastal marshes which averages out to a football fields worth of wetlands each day to erosion, a result of sinking land and sea level rise.
That happens Matt. It's called erosion. It's happened for centuries.
Folly Beach is a case study on the effects of multiple coastal barrier island management techniques. After the emplacement of the Charleston Harbor jetties in the late 1890s altered coastal sediment supply, Folly Island's beaches have retreated, and beachfront homeowners of the 1900s have attempted to slow the beach's retreat to protect their property along an eroding coast. The jetties interfere with the longshore transport of sand, depriving the beach of sand resources that has led to an erosion rate estimated between 0.3 m/yr and 1.8 m/yr.
Folly Beach, South Carolina: An endangered barrier island
AWENDAW: Wildlife could be biggest losers as SC islands wash away | Local News | The State
Geologist Rob Young, a beach erosion expert at Western Carolina University, said hes not surprised at the erosion outlined in Fish and Wildlife Service statistics.
Young said the erosion at Cape Romain shows how barrier islands react to natures forces.Thats important because so many of the nations beaches are developed and replenished each year with sand dredged from offshore, he said. If they were not artificially built up with imported sand, theyd have some of the same problems as Cape Romains barrier islands, he said.Despite the erosion and concerns about wildlife, Young said Cape Romains islands should not be renourished or have sand-trapping groins added, as has been done at Hunting Island State Park also a highly erosional but undeveloped beach.We should leave them exactly as they are, said Young, who served recently on a state panel that assessed oceanfront development policies in South Carolina. These kinds of islands that have no human interference are rare.
