Time for some people to pull their heads out of the sand.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/17/13660014/miami-beach-sand-erosion-nourishment-climate-change
http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/17/13660014/miami-beach-sand-erosion-nourishment-climate-change
Time for some people to pull their heads out of the sand.
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South Florida is essentially one big sand spit. (Is Florida missing?)
South Padre Island (the town) in Texas has plenty, it blows over the road just outside of town: http://travel.usnews.com/images/destinations/80/south_padre_island_main.jpg
They need the Dutch….
A natural disaster waiting.
Another example of humyn-kind’s hubris… no such thing as global warming…what a lie.
Miche Mi it might be a different thing than global warming, but it definitely is nature at work. Basically the fate of a sandy coast: some eras it grows, other eras it shrinks.
+Jerome Wiert Pluimers: if the melting polar ice caps are not caused by global warming (the rise in sea level), what is your theory?
Miche Mi I’m not saying it isn’t related to the melting icecaps (those are a real problem; I’ve observed the effects in person in 2011), but when you look at how this is going on for eons, it’s a normal thing and not limited to sand on sea shores: it happens on land as well.
A few interesting reads are http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WorldOfChange/cape_cod.php and http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/c1075/change.html and on lang http://offices.colgate.edu/bselleck/geology120/great%20sand%20dunes%20movement%20forman,%20etal%20quat.%20research%202006.pdf.
ehhh. BS.The sand moved someplace else (where they now have too much). A third of an inch of sea level rise does not make for a sand shortage. Waves do though. It will come back (in abundance)… just wait for the next good storm, and it may leave 30 feet of sand, burying all the houses and buildings. I have seen this happen, time and time again. Seriously, you can’t live next to an ocean (without rock cliffs) without expecting that the sand is going to move. It comes, it goes, and it comes back. This area is just a few feet above sea level, and we spend a lot on moving sand (both in, and out), and moving the sand “out” is the part of the story you are not hearing (probably because it is easier, and considered a good thing unless it buries your house – and yes, that does happen). Joe (remembering some condos that got buried three stories high).