EPA scientist warns Atlantic seaboard will be swallowed by rising seas
By Josh Harkinson
For most of the 20th century, Chesapeake Beach, Maryland, was known for its boardwalk, amusement park, and wide, sandy beaches, popular with daytrippers from Washington, D.C. “The bathing beach has a frontage of three miles,” boasted a tourist brochure from about 1900, “and is equal, if not superior, to any beach on the Atlantic Coast.”
Today, on a cloudless spring afternoon, the resort town’s sweeping view of Chesapeake Bay is no less stunning. But there’s no longer any beach in Chesapeake Beach. Where there once was sand, water now laps against a seven-foot-high wall of boulders protecting a strip of pricey homes marked with “No Trespassing” signs.
Surveying the armored shoreline, Jim Titus explains how the natural sinking of the shoreline and slow but steady sea-level rise, mostly due to climate change, have driven the bay’s water more than a foot higher over the past century. Reinforcing the eroding shore with a sea wall held the water back, but it also choked off the natural supply of sand that had replenished the beach. What sand remained gradually sank beneath the rising water.
EPA scientist warns Atlantic seaboard will be swallowed by rising seas | Grist
In summary – the land is rapidly sinking, the sea wall choked off the supply of sand, and there has been a slow, steady rise in sea level over the last 5,000 years – which has absolutely nothing to do with CO2.
Having lived by the sea for 40+ years I call bullshit on that. The sea level where I live is no different in any detectable way from the way it was 40 years ago.
I call bullshit! Reminds me of the card game. Your little sister plays “two Jacks.” But you got 3 jacks. Bullshit!
Kind of like what we see.. in the sea. With all the glaciers and icecaps in supposed virtual meltdown, we should have had -substantial- sea rise. But there’s nothing. Nil. Nada. Sure, there’s “data” showing sea rise, and they find special cases or photograph stormy high tide conditions, and say it’s rising quickly. But we go down to the beach, or “shore” as it may be, and see that the sea is just the same as its ever was. Bullshit!
I have a 40 year story myself that I relayed in a previous comment here:
I’ve been going to this tide-pooled rocky beach for ~40 years.
As a little tike I would name the big rocks (as Farm, Minor & “Major League Rock” etc), and from shore throw rocks at them. With my own eyes: the sea level has not changed. Further, recently I was there at a low tide of minus 0.5 and went out to Major rock. There was a few spotty inches of water between Minor & Major rocks.
This is EXACTLY as it was 40 years ago. Only when the tide was lower than minus 1.0 would there be no water at all between Minor & Major. I reported this to my scientist (biochem) “trust the experts” brother. He said “ok, that is some anecdotal evidence.” Me: “ANECDOTAL?!! It’s me! And you see the same thing.” Him: “Anecdotal in that it’s not scientific, or… systematic.” In a bit, he said “Those [huge] rocks have moved.” I took this as sarcastic, saying “Haha. Yeah. Another thing I hear is that the ‘land has risen.’”
Maybe the sea has risen everywhere else, while it’s just at Big Sur that it remains the same.
You must be the one that gave the National Hurricane Center the idea to name rocks!
The sea wall is MAN MADE isn’t it. and they used CO2 producing machines to build it didn’t they.
http://mywildrace.wikispaces.com/ChesaPeake+Beach,+MD
Where is the beach?
They built expensive houses along the shore and the sea wall. That even ruled out the need for subsistence to destroy the shore line. They are crying about reclaimed Swamp Land / Marsh.