Lousiana hit by rising sea levels

[westwall]

Where did you ever get the idea that the world's practicing, degreed scientists were as stupid as you are? Do you actually think the folks at CU sea level lab can't handle subsistence, isostasy, uplift and all the rest of the many factors that affect sea level?

Yeah. They pretty much can't. Far too difficult for them. Instead they blame everything on virtually nonexistent sea level increases.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Where did you ever get the idea that the world's practicing, degreed scientists were as stupid as you are? Do you actually think the folks at CU sea level lab can't handle subsistence, isostasy, uplift and all the rest of the many factors that affect sea level?

Yeah. They pretty much can't. Far too difficult for them. Instead they blame everything on virtually nonexistent sea level increases.

So 8-10cm per year sea level isn't happening....Foot ball fields of land aint happening....

Wake up westwall and read some real geologic and sea level studies...Please open your mind.

 

[westwall]

Where did you ever get the idea that the world's practicing, degreed scientists were as stupid as you are? Do you actually think the folks at CU sea level lab can't handle subsistence, isostasy, uplift and all the rest of the many factors that affect sea level?

Yeah. They pretty much can't. Far too difficult for them. Instead they blame everything on virtually nonexistent sea level increases.

So 8-10cm per year sea level isn't happening....Foot ball fields of land aint happening....

Wake up westwall and read some real geologic and sea level studies...Please open your mind.

No. It ain't. If it were there would be loads of places already undersea. Take a look at the Maldive Islands. Supposedly they are about to be under water. Funny how they were able to get some fool to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to build four new international airports to bring in the tourists. If what they claimed were true nobody in their right mind would spend that kind of money don't ya think?

I just checked, they've built ELEVEN new airports! ELEVEN! If the islands were truly threatened no one in their right mind would spend that kind of money.

It is all horse poo.

New International Airport Boosts Holiday Options to Maldives
January 17, 2017 14:20
KONOTTA, MALDIVES – The opening of international flights to Gan airport, adjacent to Addu township in the south of the Maldives, has opened a new era for the region – providing an alternative transportation offering that can save travellers valuable vacation time.


On 1 December SriLankan Airlines started flying from Colombo to the upgraded Gan airport, formerly a UK Royal Air Force refilling base until 1976 when it became a domestic airport. SriLankan Airlines now departs Colombo for Gan four times a week – Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays — at 06.55 for the 110-minute journey, using a 150-seat Airbus 320.



"Maldives, the most dispersed country on the planet with 1,192 islands spread over roughly 90,000 square kilometres, already has 11 airports, including three international airports. The country’s flagship carrier Maldivian operates flights to all the airports in the country while a private airline flies to a few select airports.

Over a million tourists from across the globe visit the Indian Ocean island nation every year to holiday in one of the 120 resorts and 300 plus guesthouses located in all corners of the country. The multi-billion dollar tourism industry, which is the country’s main economic activity, relies heavily on the domestic transport infrastructure, especially air travel.

Dhaalu Airport readies for opening, promises to be Maldives most advanced domestic airport – Maldives Insider




And lookey here, they are going to build another FIVE airports! I never knew that Airbus 320's were amphibians!

MALDIVES TO DEVELOP ANOTHER FIVE AIRPORTS TO BOOST TOURISM

Maldives to develop another five airports to boost tourism – Maldives Insider

 

[Old Rocks]

Where did you ever get the idea that the world's practicing, degreed scientists were as stupid as you are? Do you actually think the folks at CU sea level lab can't handle subsistence, isostasy, uplift and all the rest of the many factors that affect sea level?

Yeah. They pretty much can't. Far too difficult for them. Instead they blame everything on virtually nonexistent sea level increases.

Hotspot of accelerated sea-level rise on the Atlantic coast of North America

Climate warming does not force sea-level rise (SLR) at the same rate everywhere. Rather, there are spatial variations of SLR superimposed on a global average rise. These variations are forced by dynamic processes1, 2, 3, 4, arising from circulation and variations in temperature and/or salinity, and by static equilibrium processes5, arising from mass redistributions changing gravity and the Earth’s rotation and shape. These sea-level variations form unique spatial patterns, yet there are very few observations verifying predicted patterns or fingerprints6. Here, we present evidence of recently accelerated SLR in a unique 1,000-km-long hotspot on the highly populated North American Atlantic coast north of Cape Hatteras and show that it is consistent with a modelled fingerprint of dynamic SLR. Between 1950–1979 and 1980–2009, SLR rate increases in this northeast hotspot were ~ 3–4 times higher than the global average. Modelled dynamic plus steric SLR by 2100 at New York City ranges with Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change scenario from 36 to 51 cm (ref. 3); lower emission scenarios project 24–36 cm (ref. 7). Extrapolations from data herein range from 20 to 29 cm. SLR superimposed on storm surge, wave run-up and set-up will increase the vulnerability of coastal cities to flooding, and beaches and wetlands to deterioration.

https://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v2/n12/full/nclimate1597.html

Real science by real scientists.

 

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Evidence of Sea Level Acceleration at U.S. and Canadian Tide Stations, Atlantic Coast, North America
John D. Boon
[email protected]




ABSTRACT
Boon, J.D., 2012. Evidence of sea level acceleration at U.S. and Canadian tide stations, Atlantic Coast, North America.

Evidence of statistically significant acceleration in sea level rise relative to land is found in a recent analysis of monthly mean sea level (mmsl) at tide stations on the Atlantic coast of North America. Serial trend analysis was used at 11 U.S. Atlantic coast stations and 1 Canadian station (Halifax, Nova Scotia) with record lengths exceeding 75 years to examine change in the linear trend rate of rise over time. Deriving trend estimates that apply in the median year of fixed-length mmsl series, reversals in rate direction (increasing or decreasing) were observed around 1939–40 and again in the mid-1960s except at the northeasternmost stations in the latter period. What has not been observed until recently is a sharp reversal (in 1987) followed by a uniform, near-linear change in rise rate that infers constant acceleration at eight mid- to NE Atlantic tide stations, change not seen at SE U.S. Atlantic stations. Quadratic regression and analysis of variance applied to mmsl series over the last 43 years (1969–2011) confirms that addition of a quadratic term representing acceleration is statistically significant at 16 tide stations from Virginia to Nova Scotia. Previous quadratic model studies have focused on sea level series of longer spanning periods with variable serial trends undermining quadratic expression of either accelerating or decelerating sea level. Although the present 43-year analysis offers no proof that acceleration will be long lived, the rapidity of the nascent serial trend increase within the region of interest is unusual. Assuming constant acceleration exists and continues, the regression model projects mmsl by 2050 varying between 0.2 and 0.9 m above mean sea level (MSL) in the NE region and between −0.3 and 0.4 m above MSL in the SE region.

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More science by real scientists.

 

[westwall]

Where did you ever get the idea that the world's practicing, degreed scientists were as stupid as you are? Do you actually think the folks at CU sea level lab can't handle subsistence, isostasy, uplift and all the rest of the many factors that affect sea level?

Yeah. They pretty much can't. Far too difficult for them. Instead they blame everything on virtually nonexistent sea level increases.

Hotspot of accelerated sea-level rise on the Atlantic coast of North America

Climate warming does not force sea-level rise (SLR) at the same rate everywhere. Rather, there are spatial variations of SLR superimposed on a global average rise. These variations are forced by dynamic processes1, 2, 3, 4, arising from circulation and variations in temperature and/or salinity, and by static equilibrium processes5, arising from mass redistributions changing gravity and the Earth’s rotation and shape. These sea-level variations form unique spatial patterns, yet there are very few observations verifying predicted patterns or fingerprints6. Here, we present evidence of recently accelerated SLR in a unique 1,000-km-long hotspot on the highly populated North American Atlantic coast north of Cape Hatteras and show that it is consistent with a modelled fingerprint of dynamic SLR. Between 1950–1979 and 1980–2009, SLR rate increases in this northeast hotspot were ~ 3–4 times higher than the global average. Modelled dynamic plus steric SLR by 2100 at New York City ranges with Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change scenario from 36 to 51 cm (ref. 3); lower emission scenarios project 24–36 cm (ref. 7). Extrapolations from data herein range from 20 to 29 cm. SLR superimposed on storm surge, wave run-up and set-up will increase the vulnerability of coastal cities to flooding, and beaches and wetlands to deterioration.

https://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v2/n12/full/nclimate1597.html

Real science by real scientists.

Wrong silly boy. Do you even know what "evidence" is? Computer derived fiction IS NOT DATA you imbecile! It never has been, and it never will be!

Here is the pertinent part you fool!

"that it is consistent with a modelled fingerprint of dynamic SLR. Between 1950–1979 and 1980–2009, SLR rate increases in this northeast hotspot were ~ 3–4 times higher than the global average. Modelled dynamic plus"





NOT EVIDENCE! FICTION!

 

[Old Rocks]

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20 March 2017

On front line of climate change as Maldives fights rising seas

White sand circles picked out by the sun in sparkling blue seas are the first signs that my plane has arrived at the Maldives, a tropical paradise spread over almost 1200 islands.

Unfortunately, the nation is facing a rise in sea levels and the bleaching of its coral reefs – perils that made it a poster child for the consequences of climate change.

It gained publicity for the plan announced by former president Mohamed Nasheed in 2008 to purchase land elsewhere so the population could relocate should sea level rise make the islands uninhabitable.

But the mood has changed here recently. The new government, under president Abdulla Yameen, no longer seeks land to buy, but is instead determined for the nation to stay put and resist the rising seas with geoengineering projects.

The key to the new strategy is renting out islands and using the money to reclaim, fortify and even build new islands. People living on smaller lower-lying islands could then be relocated to more flood-resistant islands when needed.

On front line of climate change as Maldives fights rising seas

Wishing them all the luck in the world.

 

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Evidence of Sea Level Acceleration at U.S. and Canadian Tide Stations, Atlantic Coast, North America
John D. Boon
[email protected]




ABSTRACT
Boon, J.D., 2012. Evidence of sea level acceleration at U.S. and Canadian tide stations, Atlantic Coast, North America.

Evidence of statistically significant acceleration in sea level rise relative to land is found in a recent analysis of monthly mean sea level (mmsl) at tide stations on the Atlantic coast of North America. Serial trend analysis was used at 11 U.S. Atlantic coast stations and 1 Canadian station (Halifax, Nova Scotia) with record lengths exceeding 75 years to examine change in the linear trend rate of rise over time. Deriving trend estimates that apply in the median year of fixed-length mmsl series, reversals in rate direction (increasing or decreasing) were observed around 1939–40 and again in the mid-1960s except at the northeasternmost stations in the latter period. What has not been observed until recently is a sharp reversal (in 1987) followed by a uniform, near-linear change in rise rate that infers constant acceleration at eight mid- to NE Atlantic tide stations, change not seen at SE U.S. Atlantic stations. Quadratic regression and analysis of variance applied to mmsl series over the last 43 years (1969–2011) confirms that addition of a quadratic term representing acceleration is statistically significant at 16 tide stations from Virginia to Nova Scotia. Previous quadratic model studies have focused on sea level series of longer spanning periods with variable serial trends undermining quadratic expression of either accelerating or decelerating sea level. Although the present 43-year analysis offers no proof that acceleration will be long lived, the rapidity of the nascent serial trend increase within the region of interest is unusual. Assuming constant acceleration exists and continues, the regression model projects mmsl by 2050 varying between 0.2 and 0.9 m above mean sea level (MSL) in the NE region and between −0.3 and 0.4 m above MSL in the SE region.

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More science by real scientists.

And again for the intellectually challenged! More non evidence, more fiction! Fiction here...get your fiction!

"Quadratic regression and analysis of variance applied to mmsl series over the last 43 years"


You have the intellectual capacity of a fucking duck!

 

[westwall]

FIELD NOTES


20 March 2017

On front line of climate change as Maldives fights rising seas

White sand circles picked out by the sun in sparkling blue seas are the first signs that my plane has arrived at the Maldives, a tropical paradise spread over almost 1200 islands.

Unfortunately, the nation is facing a rise in sea levels and the bleaching of its coral reefs – perils that made it a poster child for the consequences of climate change.

It gained publicity for the plan announced by former president Mohamed Nasheed in 2008 to purchase land elsewhere so the population could relocate should sea level rise make the islands uninhabitable.

But the mood has changed here recently. The new government, under president Abdulla Yameen, no longer seeks land to buy, but is instead determined for the nation to stay put and resist the rising seas with geoengineering projects.

The key to the new strategy is renting out islands and using the money to reclaim, fortify and even build new islands. People living on smaller lower-lying islands could then be relocated to more flood-resistant islands when needed.

On front line of climate change as Maldives fights rising seas

Wishing them all the luck in the world.

Yeppers, all the luck in the world as they spend HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS to build international airports! You have to be really stupid to believe their bullshit when you see how much they are spending to bring tourists to their country. Especially if their country will supposedly be under water in ten years. Long, long before they would ever get a return on their investment!

You truly are one of the most gullible, or stupid, people on the planet!

 

[Old Rocks]

The first time my father’s basement flooded, it was shortly after he moved in. The building was an ocean-front high-rise in a small city north of Miami called Sunny Isles Beach. The marble lobby had a waterfall that never stopped running; crisp-shirted valets parked your car for you. For the residents who lived in the more lavish flats, these cars were often BMWs and Mercedes. But no matter their value, the cars all wound up in the same place: the basement.

When I called, I’d ask my dad how the building was doing. “The basement flooded again a couple weeks ago,” he’d sometimes say. Or: “It’s getting worse.” It’s not only his building: he’s also driven through a foot of water on a main road a couple of towns over and is used to tiptoeing around pools in the local supermarket’s car park.

Ask nearly anyone in the Miami area about flooding and they’ll have an anecdote to share. Many will also tell you that it’s happening more and more frequently. The data backs them up.

It’s easy to think that the only communities suffering from sea level rise are far-flung and remote. And while places like the Solomon Islands and Kiribati are indeed facing particularly dramatic challenges, they aren’t the only ones being forced to grapple with the issue. Sea levels are rising around the world, and in the US, south Florida is ground zero – as much for the adaptation strategies it is attempting as for the risk that it bears

Miami’s fight against rising seas

Not a model.

 

[westwall]

The first time my father’s basement flooded, it was shortly after he moved in. The building was an ocean-front high-rise in a small city north of Miami called Sunny Isles Beach. The marble lobby had a waterfall that never stopped running; crisp-shirted valets parked your car for you. For the residents who lived in the more lavish flats, these cars were often BMWs and Mercedes. But no matter their value, the cars all wound up in the same place: the basement.

When I called, I’d ask my dad how the building was doing. “The basement flooded again a couple weeks ago,” he’d sometimes say. Or: “It’s getting worse.” It’s not only his building: he’s also driven through a foot of water on a main road a couple of towns over and is used to tiptoeing around pools in the local supermarket’s car park.

Ask nearly anyone in the Miami area about flooding and they’ll have an anecdote to share. Many will also tell you that it’s happening more and more frequently. The data backs them up.

It’s easy to think that the only communities suffering from sea level rise are far-flung and remote. And while places like the Solomon Islands and Kiribati are indeed facing particularly dramatic challenges, they aren’t the only ones being forced to grapple with the issue. Sea levels are rising around the world, and in the US, south Florida is ground zero – as much for the adaptation strategies it is attempting as for the risk that it bears

Miami’s fight against rising seas

Not a model.

And well known that the loss of sediment from innumerable creeks and rivers is the cause. It has been KNOWN for over 50 years silly boy. If you were truly a geology student you would KNOW this to be factual. It has been taught for at least the last 35 years that I know of. All in the Physical Geology series.

 

[Old Rocks]

The city will embark on a $100 million project to raise roads, install pumps and water mains and redo sewer connections during the next two years across a swath of single-family homes in the La Gorce and Lakeview neighborhoods of Mid-Beach. A sizable chunk of a citywide effort estimated to cost $400 to $500 million, the work is meant to keep streets dry in the face of sea level rise.

Along the way, engineers will have to figure out how to smoothly join private property to the public right-of-way, which will be an average of two feet higher than it is now. In some cases, private property that drains excess water into the street will no longer do so, creating a conundrum that public works officials believe could be solved with a new form of public-private partnership.

Miami Beach to begin new $100 million flood prevention project in face of sea level rise

Half a billion for an imaginary problem? LOL

 

[Old Rocks]

The first time my father’s basement flooded, it was shortly after he moved in. The building was an ocean-front high-rise in a small city north of Miami called Sunny Isles Beach. The marble lobby had a waterfall that never stopped running; crisp-shirted valets parked your car for you. For the residents who lived in the more lavish flats, these cars were often BMWs and Mercedes. But no matter their value, the cars all wound up in the same place: the basement.

When I called, I’d ask my dad how the building was doing. “The basement flooded again a couple weeks ago,” he’d sometimes say. Or: “It’s getting worse.” It’s not only his building: he’s also driven through a foot of water on a main road a couple of towns over and is used to tiptoeing around pools in the local supermarket’s car park.

Ask nearly anyone in the Miami area about flooding and they’ll have an anecdote to share. Many will also tell you that it’s happening more and more frequently. The data backs them up.

It’s easy to think that the only communities suffering from sea level rise are far-flung and remote. And while places like the Solomon Islands and Kiribati are indeed facing particularly dramatic challenges, they aren’t the only ones being forced to grapple with the issue. Sea levels are rising around the world, and in the US, south Florida is ground zero – as much for the adaptation strategies it is attempting as for the risk that it bears

Miami’s fight against rising seas

Not a model.

And well known that the loss of sediment from innumerable creeks and rivers is the cause. It has been KNOWN for over 50 years silly boy. If you were truly a geology student you would KNOW this to be factual. It has been taught for at least the last 35 years that I know of. All in the Physical Geology series.

Fucking bullshit, Mr. Westwall. Salt water is coming up through the sewers because of beach sand loss? What are you drinking tonight?

 

[westwall]

The city will embark on a $100 million project to raise roads, install pumps and water mains and redo sewer connections during the next two years across a swath of single-family homes in the La Gorce and Lakeview neighborhoods of Mid-Beach. A sizable chunk of a citywide effort estimated to cost $400 to $500 million, the work is meant to keep streets dry in the face of sea level rise.

Along the way, engineers will have to figure out how to smoothly join private property to the public right-of-way, which will be an average of two feet higher than it is now. In some cases, private property that drains excess water into the street will no longer do so, creating a conundrum that public works officials believe could be solved with a new form of public-private partnership.

Miami Beach to begin new $100 million flood prevention project in face of sea level rise

Half a billion for an imaginary problem? LOL

I never claimed it was imaginary silly boy. But the cause that you asshats claim..... is.

Here is the real reason.

Read it and weep.

Real science, but by people without a political axe to grind.


"The presence of sandy beach-ridges and barrier islands on both Atlantic and Gulf coasts indicate that sand supply was plentiful and beaches were building seaward as sea level approached its current position several thousand years ago. Since then, sediment supplied by some coastal rivers and the continental shelf has naturally diminished as a result of climatic changes and adjustments of the inner shelf profile. Humans have also contributed significantly to the deficit in sediment supply by damming rivers, building seawalls, groins, and jetties, and dredging tidal inlets. These natural and artificial reductions in coastal sediment supply have resulted in the erosion of many beaches, barrier islands, and deltas. Today the only remaining source of sediment for many coastal compartments is local erosion of nearby beaches and bluffs."
https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/of03-337/landloss.pdf

 

[Old Rocks]

Miami, the great world city, is drowning while the powers that be look away

Every year, with the coming of high spring and autumn tides, the sea surges up the Florida coast and hits the west side of Miami Beach, which lies on a long, thin island that runs north and south across the water from the city of Miami. The problem is particularly severe in autumn when winds often reach hurricane levels. Tidal surges are turned into walls of seawater that batter Miami Beach's west coast and sweep into the resort's storm drains, reversing the flow of water that normally comes down from the streets above. Instead seawater floods up into the gutters of Alton Road, the first main thoroughfare on the western side of Miami Beach, and pours into the street. Then the water surges across the rest of the island.

The effect is calamitous. Shops and houses are inundated; city life is paralysed; cars are ruined by the corrosive seawater that immerses them. During one recent high spring tide, laundromat owner Eliseo Toussaint watched as slimy green saltwater bubbled up from the gutters. It rapidly filled the street and then blocked his front door. "This never used to happen," Toussaint told the New York Times. "I've owned this place eight years and now it's all the time."

Today, shop owners keep plastic bags and rubber bands handy to wrap around their feet when they have to get to their cars through rising waters, while householders have found that ground-floor spaces in garages are no longer safe to keep their cars. Only those on higher floors can hope to protect their cars from surging sea waters that corrode and rot the innards of their vehicles.

Miami, the great world city, is drowning while the powers that be look away

 

[westwall]

The first time my father’s basement flooded, it was shortly after he moved in. The building was an ocean-front high-rise in a small city north of Miami called Sunny Isles Beach. The marble lobby had a waterfall that never stopped running; crisp-shirted valets parked your car for you. For the residents who lived in the more lavish flats, these cars were often BMWs and Mercedes. But no matter their value, the cars all wound up in the same place: the basement.

When I called, I’d ask my dad how the building was doing. “The basement flooded again a couple weeks ago,” he’d sometimes say. Or: “It’s getting worse.” It’s not only his building: he’s also driven through a foot of water on a main road a couple of towns over and is used to tiptoeing around pools in the local supermarket’s car park.

Ask nearly anyone in the Miami area about flooding and they’ll have an anecdote to share. Many will also tell you that it’s happening more and more frequently. The data backs them up.

It’s easy to think that the only communities suffering from sea level rise are far-flung and remote. And while places like the Solomon Islands and Kiribati are indeed facing particularly dramatic challenges, they aren’t the only ones being forced to grapple with the issue. Sea levels are rising around the world, and in the US, south Florida is ground zero – as much for the adaptation strategies it is attempting as for the risk that it bears

Miami’s fight against rising seas

Not a model.

And well known that the loss of sediment from innumerable creeks and rivers is the cause. It has been KNOWN for over 50 years silly boy. If you were truly a geology student you would KNOW this to be factual. It has been taught for at least the last 35 years that I know of. All in the Physical Geology series.

Fucking bullshit, Mr. Westwall. Salt water is coming up through the sewers because of beach sand loss? What are you drinking tonight?

Yes, silly boy. Read the USGS report I just posted and learn something from outside your ridiculous echo chamber!

 

[Old Rocks]

The city will embark on a $100 million project to raise roads, install pumps and water mains and redo sewer connections during the next two years across a swath of single-family homes in the La Gorce and Lakeview neighborhoods of Mid-Beach. A sizable chunk of a citywide effort estimated to cost $400 to $500 million, the work is meant to keep streets dry in the face of sea level rise.

Along the way, engineers will have to figure out how to smoothly join private property to the public right-of-way, which will be an average of two feet higher than it is now. In some cases, private property that drains excess water into the street will no longer do so, creating a conundrum that public works officials believe could be solved with a new form of public-private partnership.

Miami Beach to begin new $100 million flood prevention project in face of sea level rise

Half a billion for an imaginary problem? LOL

I never claimed it was imaginary silly boy. But the cause that you asshats claim..... is.

Here is the real reason.

Read it and weep.

Real science, but by people without a political axe to grind.


"The presence of sandy beach-ridges and barrier islands on both Atlantic and Gulf coasts indicate that sand supply was plentiful and beaches were building seaward as sea level approached its current position several thousand years ago. Since then, sediment supplied by some coastal rivers and the continental shelf has naturally diminished as a result of climatic changes and adjustments of the inner shelf profile. Humans have also contributed significantly to the deficit in sediment supply by damming rivers, building seawalls, groins, and jetties, and dredging tidal inlets. These natural and artificial reductions in coastal sediment supply have resulted in the erosion of many beaches, barrier islands, and deltas. Today the only remaining source of sediment for many coastal compartments is local erosion of nearby beaches and bluffs."
https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/of03-337/landloss.pdf

Look, you stupid ass, we are not talking about the beach. We are talking about streets and areas that never used to flood, that now do. And they do because of a higher sea level. The porous rock beneath Miami lets the sea water come in at the level the sea is. And with the rise in sea level, the king tides flood areas that they never used to.

 

[westwall]

The city will embark on a $100 million project to raise roads, install pumps and water mains and redo sewer connections during the next two years across a swath of single-family homes in the La Gorce and Lakeview neighborhoods of Mid-Beach. A sizable chunk of a citywide effort estimated to cost $400 to $500 million, the work is meant to keep streets dry in the face of sea level rise.

Along the way, engineers will have to figure out how to smoothly join private property to the public right-of-way, which will be an average of two feet higher than it is now. In some cases, private property that drains excess water into the street will no longer do so, creating a conundrum that public works officials believe could be solved with a new form of public-private partnership.

Miami Beach to begin new $100 million flood prevention project in face of sea level rise

Half a billion for an imaginary problem? LOL

I never claimed it was imaginary silly boy. But the cause that you asshats claim..... is.

Here is the real reason.

Read it and weep.

Real science, but by people without a political axe to grind.


"The presence of sandy beach-ridges and barrier islands on both Atlantic and Gulf coasts indicate that sand supply was plentiful and beaches were building seaward as sea level approached its current position several thousand years ago. Since then, sediment supplied by some coastal rivers and the continental shelf has naturally diminished as a result of climatic changes and adjustments of the inner shelf profile. Humans have also contributed significantly to the deficit in sediment supply by damming rivers, building seawalls, groins, and jetties, and dredging tidal inlets. These natural and artificial reductions in coastal sediment supply have resulted in the erosion of many beaches, barrier islands, and deltas. Today the only remaining source of sediment for many coastal compartments is local erosion of nearby beaches and bluffs."
https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/of03-337/landloss.pdf

Look, you stupid ass, we are not talking about the beach. We are talking about streets and areas that never used to flood, that now do. And they do because of a higher sea level. The porous rock beneath Miami lets the sea water come in at the level the sea is. And with the rise in sea level, the king tides flood areas that they never used to.

Yes we are you fucking 'tard. The beach protects the aquifer underneath the city. As the beaches get eroded they no longer prevent sea water intrusion. It's BASIC FUCKING HYDROLOGY you dipshit. Read a fucking book and learn something instead of spouting off shit you have no clue about!

 

[SSDD]

Rising waters threaten Louisiana way of life...

Rising waters threaten Louisiana culture
Thu, Jul 06, 2017 - Louise St Pierre paints pictures of shacks and swamps on the insides of oyster shells — tiny scenes of Cajun culture she sees washing away amid the rising saltwater and periodic floods inundating southern Louisiana. “Our culture is dying,” said St Pierre, who lives in Lafourche Parish, where cypress trees are hung with lacy strands of Spanish moss and alligators lurk in bayous, the region’s slow-moving swamp waterways. “It’s not like it was,” she said.

People are moving away from the parish, about 97km southwest of New Orleans, faced with growing flood risks and unable to pay for insurance, which can reach thousands of dollars and is required by mortgage banks in high-risk areas. Since Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, nearly 10 percent of Lafourche’s population has left its southernmost end that is flood-prone and vulnerable to storm surges. Attrition due to soaring insurance premiums is visible from the proliferation of “For Sale” signs on houses and boats, said Gary LaFleur, a biologist and faculty member at the Center for Bayou Studies at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux. “No government is coming in and kicking people out, but all of a sudden the insurance rates are going up so high that it’s like a slow economic way of leading to a ghost town,” he told reporters. “Within 50 years the town is gone.”

Lafourche has been home for centuries to Cajuns who are descended from French-speaking settlers expelled in the 18th century from what is now Canada. Cajun culture is renowned for its spicy cuisine and lively traditional music. “It’s a lifestyle, people, language — just the way you were brought up by your parents and grandparents,” St Pierre said. Traditions such as the blessing of the fleets in the bayous — once an annual ceremony for shrimpers and others — are dimming as the ranks of family-owned fishing boats dwindle, he said. “When you see one shrimp boat and it’s followed by five party boats, you think, aww, this isn’t as cool as it used to be,” he said.

St Pierre, known as Ms Louise, sells her miniature Cajun paintings to customers at craft shows. “They can send them to their nephew in New York and say, ‘Hey, that is a part of our culture. Don’t forget,’” she said. St Pierre, 65, learned French from her grandparents and meets each Tuesday night with fellow francophones, whose numbers are falling. Fewer than 14,000 people in Lafourche are native French speakers, according to the latest census figures, down from some 16,000 a decade earlier. St Pierre also cooks a mean Cajun meal. “I can make you gumbo and jambalaya, and do your etouffees and of course boiled shrimp and crawfish, fried oysters,” she said. “And I love alligator tails.”

However, oyster beds were hit hard by the massive BP oil spill in 2010, crabs are under pressure from wetland loss and cheap foreign imports have depressed local seafood prices. Added to that, saltwater intrusion from the Gulf of Mexico is killing vegetation where rabbit, deer and other Cajun delicacies used to thrive, she said. Towns such as Leeville, once a vibrant fishing center, are under threat. The main artery was elevated to a causeway to avoid rising water, so the road that went through downtown now goes overhead, LaFleur said. “Leeville didn’t get washed away, but because they had to raise the road, now people just don’t go to Leeville anymore,” he said. “That’s kind of killing that community right there.”

Locals also worry about a loss of federal funding to protect the coast, advocated by US President Donald Trump’s administration. Under the 2006 Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA), four states, including Louisiana, get nearly 40 percent of federal oil revenue from drilling off their coasts. Louisiana officials have said the state could see as much as US$140 million of GOMESA money for coastal restoration in a year. However, Trump’s proposed budget would divert that cash to the US Treasury. Former US PResident Barack Obama’s administration also sought to divert GOMESA funding but was blocked by US Congress. “If we don’t get that money this year, you can just kiss everything goodbye,” St Pierre said.

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The waters aren't rising. The land is shrinking. The dams all along the Mississippi have reduced the sediment load to the point where the river can no longer maintain the delta which protected the coastline. John McPhee has an excellent book called the Control of Nature that delves into the subject in great, accurate detail.

"The Control of Nature is a 1989 book by John McPhee that chronicles three attempts (with varying success) to control natural processes. It is divided into three long essays, "Atchafalaya", "Cooling the Lava", and "Los Angeles Against the Mountains". The Army Corps of Engineers prevents the Mississippi River from changing course, but has had less success in controlling flooding along the river. The residents of Heimaey, Iceland saved their harbor by spraying water on the volcanic lava flow threatening to close it off. The residents of the San Gabriel Mountains have had little success in preventing debris flows from destroying their houses.


The Control of Nature - Wikipedia

What a liar you are, Mr. Westwall. Here is what real scientists have to say about that.

Louisiana wetlands struggling with sea-level rise four times the global average
March 14, 2017

Without major efforts to rebuild Louisiana's wetlands, particularly in the westernmost part of the state, there is little chance that the coast will be able to withstand the accelerating rate of sea-level rise, a new Tulane University study concludes.

Read more at: Louisiana wetlands struggling with sea-level rise four times the global average

Bullshit rocks...it seems that you will believe anything that doesn't contradict your quasi religious beliefs...here, if you can look at the truth without having your eyes burn out of their sockets, have a look at what is actually happening in Louisiana.

The land is sinking...and the rate of sea level rise is not increasing.

 

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Here is the pertinent part you fool!
"that it is consistent with a modelled fingerprint of dynamic SLR. Between 1950–1979 and 1980–2009, SLR rate increases in this northeast hotspot were ~ 3–4 times higher than the global average. Modelled dynamic plus"

NOT EVIDENCE! FICTION!

Hilarious. The paper said the measurements agree with the models ... so Westwall concludes that means the evidence doesn't exist.

Westwall's ignorance is well-rounded. He fails equally hard at all science, at logic, and at understanding basic English.