ThatOwlWoman (07-14-2018)
Like an ax slowly chopping at the trunk of a massive tree, waves driven by sea-level rise will hack away the base of cliffs on the Southern California coast at an accelerated pace, a recent study says, increasing land erosion that could topple some bluffs and thousands of homes sitting atop them.
California officials from Santa Barbara to San Diego will face an awful choice as the sea rises, the U.S. Geological Survey study says: save public beaches enjoyed by millions, or close them off with boulders and concrete walls to armor the shore and stop the waves in a bid to save homes.
The study predicts coastal land loss on an unimaginable scale over the remaining century, up to 135 feet beyond the existing shoreline. “For the highest sea-level rise scenario, taking an average cliff height of more than 25 meters, the total cliff volume loss would be more than 300 million meters by 2100,” it says.
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ThatOwlWoman (07-14-2018)
It will be interesting to see how they solve that conundrum. My guess would be bankrupt the state to buy up all the beach front property, then make the whole area public.
Who was that congressional genius who believes that the sea level is rising due to erosion rather than climate change? Hope one of those houses is his.
ThatOwlWoman (07-14-2018)
I'm supposed to care because some stupid liberals in California built their houses too close to the water?
The boys at Nature would beg to differ!
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...92#post2480292
I don't know how ppl afford the insurance on that. One of our friends recently bought a new (to them) home in the Glendale area. As they were looking, she sent me real estate listings for the ones they were considering. The one they liked second best was like that -- built on the side of a hill with a good part of it hanging out over empty space. I asked her if that might be subject to mudslides or fire. She said yes, that's why they kept looking -- the insurance alone would have been over $10K/year. Yikes.
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D.C. has become a Guild System with an hierarchy and line of accession much like the Royal Court or priestly classes.
Private citizens are perfectly able of doing a better job without "apprenticing".
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