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| Still Plenty of Money to Spend on Rising Oceans |
| 2011-02-01 |
| As the world's seas continue their inexorable rise, we're going to see more and more engineers working on more and more coastal defences. Most, of course, will be much smaller and much less elaborate than MOSE. MOSE is a $6.35 Billion plan for inflatable barriers to protect Venice from high tides and surges. Many will be like the project now under way in Ventura, Calif., where crews are moving a crumbling bicycle path, two parking lots and some underground utility lines about 35 metres inland from a beach that has already receded 100 metres or more since the 1970s because of rising sea levels and increasingly severe storms. Rising sea levels came first? What, alphabetically? At $4.5 million, it's not a big deal in itself, but it is a vivid example of what might lie ahead for California as costal erosion worsens. It's being called "managed retreat," and it's something that must be contemplated by every country with a coastline. Except in the Netherlands, where they are expanding their beaches, described a few paragraphs above what is provided here. "The challenge," says Gary Griggs at the University of California Santa Cruz, "is that we have built most of our civilization within a few feet of sea level or right at the edge. It's going to be either managed or unmanaged, but it's going to be retreat." |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #5 "But its going to be RETREAT" ... So-o-o IIUC, GLOBAL WARMING/CLIMATE CHANGE + RISING SEAS + GUAM-WESTPAC > Year 2050-2100 = Coastal or seashore Villages may have to relocate themselves towards NEAR ANDOR ABOVE THE CLIFFLINES OF THE ISLAND'S NORTHERN PLATEAU + HIGH SOUTHERN RIDGES. MOUNTAINS, since low-lying land areas will become the NEW BEACHFRONT(S). SUPER-STORMS + MINI-ICE AGES NOTWITHSTANDING. The Great = Mighty Pacific Slushy. versies * WORLD NET DAILY [old?] > HOLY TOMBSTONE! EASTER SUNDAY ASTEROID ON PATH TOWARDS EARTH. Russian Scientists says EARTH IMPACT in 2036 vee COMET APOPHIS is still possible, given normal gravity factors + extant circumstances in place at that times. Lest we fergit, ME > GUAM,EARTH-VISIBLE MOON EXPLOSIONS ala Year 2030. E.g. TOPIX > GLOBAL ERUPTIONS ROCK THE SUN [Sun-wide SOLAR EXPLOSION(S)]. In order for the various Pert forecasts as per magnitudinal GLOBAL TEMPERATURE CHANGES 2050-2100 TO HOLD TRUE, IMO THE SUN MUST GET HOTTER, i.e. release LARGER BIGGER SOLAR FLARES = CMES which in turn will affect Space Bolides, etc. like APOPHIS, MOON, + even EARTH + MAJOR PLANETS. Lest we fergit II, MSM-NET's "PLANETARY/SYSTEMIC WARMING". IOW, 2012-2013 TECHS-DAMAGING MASSIVE SOLAR STORMS, iff + when the same occurs as per NASA + Perts, will affect what occurs in 2030 + 2036, etc. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-02-01 22:57 |
| #4 I haven't finished being educated yet Not a problem, TW. We are still not finished figuring out interestingly complex things like the weather or the sun. And yes, in a world where the oceans are rising at a rate of a millimeter a year (a foot every 300 years), beach erosion and land subsidence are bigger problems than rising sea levels. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2011-02-01 20:13 |
| #3 But I can't be re-educated, Darth Vader. I haven't finished being educated yet. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-02-01 19:36 |
| #2 Hush, TW. Facts are irrelevant. Please proceed to your nearest government education center for re-education. Thank you. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2011-02-01 17:59 |
| #1 I thought the problem in Venice was that the city is sinking, not that the ocean is rising... |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-02-01 17:29 |