I’ve been to the Outer Banks.
It’s really pretty.
It’s also really flat.
There won’t be much left soon enough.
My wife’s family used to have a vacation home on Ocracoke. One year her mom bought some romance novel for a beach read that was set on Ocracoke, it seemed appropriate.
It was pretty clear that the writer had never been to Ocracoke or even bothered looking at Google maps because they talked about the cliffs by the sea.
It’s a glorified sandbar, just about the biggest elevation changes you’ll find are some dunes and the curb stepping off a sidewalk onto the road, nothing even remotely resembling a cliff.
has lost seven homes to the ocean in the past four years.
I sleep.
- The Climate is always changing
- we will have more waterfront property
- antartica is gaining ice
- CO2 is good for plants
- sea level rise is exaggerated
- scientists are in it for the Gov money
- We’re coming out of a little ice age
- they want to ban cows
- There is no consensus
- volcanos did it
That ‘CO2 is plant food’ argument always cracks me up. Like, water is good for people yes, but I’ll still die if you shove a thousand gallons down my throat.
They’ve stopped claiming it’s the 11-year solar cycle. That was a good one.
Antarctica is gaining ice…. Where
I do believe I read this. Changing weather patterns, including warmer air, created more snowfall in some parts of Antarctica. Remember that the interior is all desert, too cold for snow…. Or was
Of course it’s also like saying Death Valley had a flood, so California’s water shortage is solved
McMurdo got a new slushie machine
I haven’t heard anything about “the war on lightbulbs” lately. Maybe we won one.
Is this all from the “interview” on X or several different moments in time.
Volcano insurance is the next hottest must-have accessory
It’s been going on for years. People just make dumb decisions trying to get as close to the water as possible.
https://www.nps.gov/caha/learn/historyculture/movingthelighthouse.htm
Sea level has been rising for decades.
Looks like that one in the background is next.
Reminds me of the little pig who built his house out of sticks.
My grandparents had a house on Cape Cod that was right on the water. When I was maybe 8 to 10 years old I could stand on the beach and rest my elbows on the top of the seawall that separated the beach from the yard in front of the house.
20 years later when the house was sold so much sand had eroded from the beach that, as an adult, I couldn’t reach the top of the seawall while standing in the same place. So over the span of a couple decades roughly 5 vertical feet of beach had eroded away.
All beach front properties need to be on sleds or wheels.
That wouldn’t work, what would you do, back up into the guy behind you? Why would they have to move.
Well it’s better than falling into the sea - they’ll just have to get a new block of land somewhere else if they have neighbors behind them.
Pro tip: use a sea level simulator to identify future coastline properties! /s
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