Wrong, AP, Human-Caused Climate Change is Not Why Houses on Barrier Islands Are In Danger

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Wrong, AP, Human-Caused Climate Change is Not Why Houses on Barrier Islands Are In Danger
 
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Guest Contributor
June 28, 2024
 

Guest post by Buck Throckmorton
Editor’s Note: The Associated Press, along with other news agencies, are once again blaming climate change and rising sea levels on house destruction on barrier islands. Throckmorton points out that barrier islands are unstable to begin with. Climate Realism has likewise pointed out natural causes of beach instability here, here, and here.

It’s hard to keep pace with all the ways the climate cult blames naturally occurring phenomena on “climate change,” be it natural disasters, violent storms, or “record” temperatures. While the weather is not getting “more extreme” as the climatistas claim, their apocalyptic rhetoric certainly is, and it’s also getting more dishonest. The conflation of shifting sands on barrier islands with rising sea levels is another scientifically dishonest claim being made by the climate alarmists.

Back in the 1980s, the first generation of global warmists promised that a catastrophic rise in sea levels was likely to submerge the Maldives, among other coastal areas, before 2020. Not only did that never happen, but the Maldives has a greater landmass now than it did when its imminent submersion was a “scientific fact” three decades ago. So, with the oceans not cooperating in rising as prophesied by “climate scientists” 30-plus years ago, the climate hysterics and the credulous media are now blaming the naturally occurring movement of barrier islands on “climate change” and rising seas.

Whenever a beach house on a barrier island is lost to shifting sands, it is now being reported as a harbinger of the coastal doom that is being caused by our carbon sinning. Just a few weeks ago, the American media was somberly reporting about yet another house on North Carolina’s Outer Banks being lost to the rising waters of the Atlantic Ocean. From an AP story dated 5/29/2024:

https://climaterealism.com/2024/06/wrong-ap-rising-seas-are-not-why-houses-on-barrier-islands-are-in-danger/

[Fishrrman]

What about that parable (told by Jesus himself, I believe) about building one's house upon solid rock v. building it on sand...?

[Smokin Joe]

Barrier Islands are just overgrown sandbars, built and modified by the longshore drift component of wave action. They naturally change, erode, are breached, and even are removed completely by storm events. Those processes were acting on sand in water long before the first human, and that hasn't changed.

It occurs to me that there is a contingent who would perform the equivalent of flogging themselves and each other, traveling in sackcloth, for the ills of the world...Flagellants

...only now they seem to like leather and lace and travel by private jet, and it's our flesh they want to mortify.

[roamer_1]

There's a reason why beach houses used to be literal shacks.