Swiss Town Obliterated As Glacier Melts

I know. Agree.

I was just giving examples of how ice is not taking up the waters mass until it actually melts or falls into it.

 

sKamala failed the bar exam. As did Michelle Obama. So did Shillary. And JFK. And FDR...

Y'all seem fond of bar failures, but now you want to use it as a cudgel to discredit RFK?

LOL!

....yeah, that's convincing...

 

So the earth just gonna sit there and sweat while it gets hot?

Doesn't seem to be what she's done through out her billions of years of existence, but I guess if we tax the @$%& out of everyone so the Algores of the world can jet set about and lecture us, and measure our carbon footprint, and dole out carbon credits from on high...

...why that'll fix the ol' lady better than she ever figured over all those billions of years...

(NM God...)...

 

What's it like to pretend y'all's dramatic pretend caring matters a lick?

#dillusionalmuch?

 

We bought our condo on the beach in 2014. At that time we had dunes, sea grass and sand spurs. Now? Just a big old seawall, no dunes for the last 5+ years. Losing the pool and almost the corner of the building to hurricane Ian and Nicole was fun. I guess you'd need to be assessed thousands of dollars to believe.

 

I mean dunes to ebb and flow over the years.

 

I dont think questioning how much we are affecting climate control while acknowledging we are affecting it puts someone in the same category as climate change deniers. When I was a kid I used to fear the future because of how glib our outlook was. Then it was acid rain, the ozone layer.

With that said, even though the earth has a remarkable power to heal itself, population growth, deforestation, and fossil fuels have to take a toll eventually. As someone stated before, there doesnt have to be a singular factor to tip the scales. What other species alters their environment the way humans do? It certainly isn't a natural order.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/06/02/coastal-flooding-north-carolina/

An article on how flooding is much more frequent than realized in North Carolina.


During a single year, from May 2023 through April 2024, they logged 26 days of flooding in Beaufort, 65 days in Carolina Beach and 128 days in Sea Level. Many of those floods — defined as water getting on a nearby road — happened on sunny days, and very few were associated with large storm events.


The frequency of flooding was “an order of magnitude greater” than the official number of what are known as high-tide flooding days projected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which maintains a network of tide gauges along the coastlines.

n a series of articles last year, The Washington Post documented how the American South has experienced one of the most rapid rates of sea-level rise on Earth since 2010. At more than a dozen tide gauges spanning from Texas to North Carolina, sea levels are at least six inches higher than they were in 2010 — a change similar to what occurred over the previous five decades.

 

"6 time walking failure"--the guy who won POTUS twice--straddling a sabotage snow job--a multi-billionaire who won bigger than he ever lost (after having graduated from renowned Wharton business school)...

...while your boy, dunce Doh! Biden graduated from (lol!) U. Of Duhlawares, then had to cheat his way to squeak out a JD from Syracuse, damn near the bottom of his class (that's some My Cousin Vinny shit, right there...) ...

D'okay...

Yeah, talk your shit about academic cred... LOL!

 

I grew up there. The beach was a lot bigger when I was 15, let alone no dunes.

 

All you have to do is look back 5 years when the world shut down. The air quality in cities and countries that have terrible smog cleared up. No planes flying, no cars on the road. I don't know what we can do about it, because obviously shutting down isn't good either.

 

Gotcha. I just know here when the beach shrinks they just dredge sand back up and it fixes it for years, so the relatively small shange in beach width over years is really ebb and flow. 100 years from now the beach will look different, but likely only a little bit different one way or the other.

I also wonder how much of beach evolution is caused by development on the shore and less by climate change.

Still human in causation, but different.

 

seems odd that it went away so quickly. Like if we have created a worldwide global problem for the last century, that a 3 month lockdown wouldnt really do much.

Probably simplistic thinking, but I would like to see more data on why it cleared up so fast.

 

I don't think thats fair 92. We can debate how much this or that helps, but people do care.

 

In the Bahamas when they build the Baha Mar they actually were planning to take hotels on the beach and move them back (I guess tear down and rebuild) because the concrete was worsening the beach erosion. I can't pretend to know why, but I remember the conversation. I think about how if you stand at the edge of the water and a small wave comes in, goes around your feet, and erodes the sand around your feet.

 

I remember reading about it and how it was just a drop in the bucket of what we would need to do to reverse climate change.

 

Not true.
But I try not to base my beliefs and decisions on what “could” happen in 100 years.

 

The breathable air cleaned up quickly, and was sort of remarkeable to see. Obviously that is not the type of economy anyone wants, but it shows what is hypothetically possible in the population centers in the future once tailpipe emissions are largely replaced by EV’s.

However it should be pointed out that while the visible air pollution and smog pollution remarkably cleaned up, and technically carbon emissions did decline, atmospheric carbon levels continued going up. So that’s still a different can of worms.

Emission Reductions From Pandemic Had Unexpected Effects on Atmosphere | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)