I’m sure the unionized road workers appreciate what “globull warming” is doing
At Surfers Point in Ventura, California is beginning its retreat from the ocean.
Construction crews are removing a crumbling bike path, ripping out a 120-space parking lot and laying down sand and cobblestones. By pushing the asphalt 65 feet inland, the project is expected to give the wave-ravaged point 50 more years of life.
Wave ravaged, eh? Obviously, there were no waves before mankind’s release of CO2.
The effort by the city of Ventura is the most vivid example to date of what may lie ahead in California as coastal communities come to grips with rising sea levels and worsening coastal erosion. As the coastline creeps inland, scouring sand from beaches or eating away at coastal bluffs, landowners will increasingly be forced to decide whether to spend vast sums of money fortifying the shore or give up and step back.
Weird. I don’t remember any coastal erosion prior to 1980, do you? Probably caused by Hollywood stars driving around in big limo’s, flying in private jets, and having more than 2 1/2 bathrooms at their mega-mansions.
“Managed retreat, as it’s called, is one of the things that we’re going to have in our quiver to deal with sea-level rise and increasing storms,” said Sam Schuchat, executive officer of the California Coastal Conservancy, which helped fund the Surfers Point project.
Sea levels have risen about 8 inches in the last century and are expected to swell at an increasing rate as climate change warms the ocean, experts say. In California, the sea is projected to rise as much as 55 inches by the end of the century and gobble up 41 square miles of coastal land, according to a 2009 state-commissioned report by the Pacific Institute.
?????? First, the average sea rise since the huge sea rise from the end of the last ice age leveled out around 7,000 years ago is 6 inches. Average. Meaning some years it is bigger, some it is lower. That happens according to warmer and cooler periods over the lat 7K years. So, 8 is nothing over the last century, particularly after coming out of a big cool period. But, 55 in the next 89 years? Out of their frigging minds.
…..sea is projected to rise as much as 55 inches
This is the ol’ Micheal Moore trick.
I am sure that someone somewhere has projected that the seas will rise that much. It doesn’t matter that they are crazy, that the data doesn’t support that projection, or that no one else thinks it will rise anywhere close to that. The paper can say what they said in truth.
It doesn’t matter that the underlying fact is false. People that buy into the AGW don’t like facts. So they deal with pseudo-facts in putting forth a falsehood, but placing it in a truthful light.
After all, the media would never lie, right?
You reckon it just be the tides. You know…they go in___ they come out___ they go in, ect. Hmmmm, interesting concept.
Mike
I heard from someone down the road that the projected sea level rise by the next decade will be 164 inches!!!! He had this climate model on his PSP that proved it.
Oh, hey Teach, isn’t what this city doing called…. adaptation? meaning, they don’t just sit still while the water inundates them and THEN claim massive and sudden destruction?
Oh come on, what are we worried about. Our galaxy is all going to be just a memory next year anyway. Remember, George Lucas says so.
Forget it, man, it’s Ventura. Just take a hit and pass it on…
Mojo, I think the correct way to say that was,
“Forget it, man, it’s California. Just take a hit for mankind”
Surfs up Dude!