Some idiot builds a house on a cliff made of soft sediment, next to the ocean, a few miles away from the San Andreas Fault – and the NYT blames their plight on global warming.
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/
Sea level hasn’t changed near San Francisco for at least 25 years. Going back to 1850 it might have risen six inches.
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?stnid=9414290
At nearby Crescent City, sea level is falling.
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?stnid=9419750
Sea level is not rising appreciably in California. The global warming industry is reduced to nothing but fantasy.
Better put a query into the Climate Rapid Response team. I am hoping you are going to provide a link for interested folks to fill up their inbox.
I’ll see what I can find. Hopefully they can come shovel the snow out of my driveway.
lol
I’ve only found a sign up form. Nothing about submitting questions or a blog or anything that I can find. I think Abraham is too scared to try one on his own or with only a couple of his friends. Sad, I was hoping for an open exchange of ideas. (And to show him and the world how many argumentative errors he made in his presentation. I suppose its easier without an interactive audience.
Beach erosion is complex, a pier or change in the structure of the beach nearby can cause an erosion pattern further down the coast.
Nothing complex about it in No Cal. It gets slammed by huge waves every ten seconds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longshore_drift
But the sea always causes erosion, volcanoes that make it through the water often get eroded within a few years.
TSA is dumber though then the NYT
http://www.naturalnews.com/030471_TSA_false_flag_operation.html
It is a pretty section of coast and I usually spent time watching the waves while driving the coast.
Were you texting and driving too? Please send me a reminder next time you’re on that highway so I can avoid it, or risk death by driver. 🙂
I stopped the vehicle at many spots along Highway 1 to watch the suf. Does that sound better?
I only used texting for work before it became a fad thing and and was required to pullover due to company regulations and the text pager I carried was anything but modern. Then we went to WAN lap tops and did away with the text pagers. I had access to the company network anywhere in the country for e-mail and other such.
MTD:
Highway 1 is a long way from E. TN! 😉
I’m no hillbilly. I’m a good ole flat earther from Eastern NC aka Redneckville… which was once under the ocean way, way back in much warmer days. 🙂
I guess we’re now coming to expect a lack of research ability in journalists; it’s simply easier to blame it on climate change without making any further effort. The worst part is the ignorance is most likely policy-driven.
OT
CEO of airport body scanner company went with Obama to India:
The CEO of one of the two companies licensed to sell full body scanners to the TSA accompanied President Barack Obama to India
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/body-scanner-ceo-obama-india/
OSI Systems Chief Executive Officer Joins US Presidential Visit to India
http://investors.osi-systems.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=530184
Sigh………………….
Once again, that immortal quotation from Edward Abbey leaps to mind:
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
We have the Pacific plate pushing California up out of the ocean. Any geologists want to tell me how many mm on average the coastal range grows a year? I know it’s outpacing sea level rise.
The plates in California move horizontally. The Pacific plate moves north and the North American plate moves south. You may have heard of the San Andreas fault. ;^) All of the California beaches south of Point Reyes are on the Pacific plate.
You appear to be confusing California with Alaska.
Sure it moves horizontally somewhat, but it also moves inland, thus the mountains. The same process that grew the Andes is growing the Sierra and Cascades.
The beaches are on the Pacific Plate. If there was subduction going on, the beaches would be sinking, not rising.
The San Andreas fault is a strike slip fault with very strong horizontal movement.
What things change, I thought we have to stop the geology, we have to stop the climate from what it normally does, how do we stop the tectonic forces, surely we are causing those as well.
It’s because of the lubricant. All along the San Andreas pockets of oil are allowing what would otherwise be a subduction fault to slide sideways toward Alaska.
The solution is obvious. Somehow we need to remove that oil under the California coast and return the tectonic energy to growing mountains rather then trying to shake the liberals off of San Francisco, like it has been for the last hundred years. Drilling is in keeping with God’s plan.
It would be a relief for the planet.
James Mayeau says:
November 23, 2010 at 3:55 am
It’s because of the lubricant. All along the San Andreas pockets of oil are allowing what would otherwise be a subduction fault to slide sideways toward Alaska.
Tommy Gold hypothesized that oil and natural gas are created through movement under pressure in the mantle of the earth.
So it might be a chicken or egg thing.
The Andes are located along a subduction zone. There is no subduction zone in California.
So how do you explain the mountains on the coast? How do you explain that jagged rock face jutting out of the ocean in the picture you posted?
Do you think there is a subduction zone along the Dover cliffs in England?
That is not a rock face.
It’s not like that over on the Atlantic side of the country. Over there they have dunes and vegetation that grows right down to the edge of the water, as if it has a right to be there. Not mountains. Not even a suspicion of a mountain,
Naked rock clawing for the sky.
That’s a west coast exclusive.
The picture does not show a rock face but a sediment face. They had to drive steel beams into the cliff to keep the buildings from falling in the ocean.