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Hawkeye10 said:
Can you imagine a Caribbean minus its beaches? It's not science fiction, it?s climate change

I think that serious questions need to be asked about the long term future prospects in the age of rising seas and maybe increased hurricane action, for sure if we figure out the hurricanes are going to be more common now spending money after each one to rebuild increasingly gets to be a bad choice.
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Beaches will be higher up the beaches, where the first dunes are now. Some islands will go and we will lose some land and houses, billions of Dollars will be lost. But I would be more concerned about metropolitan areas. That's where the people are and the real assets will be destroyed, if they are.
 
People speak of sea level rise like it is something we can change, it is not!
The sea level has been rising for the entire era of Human civilization,
and will continue to rise, until it starts to fall.
Thankfully the rate of the raise is fairly constant, and most of our cities will be unaffected
for several hundred years.
Someone mentioned, Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic.
Well, what does google say,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo_Domingo
Elevation 46 Feet.
What is the rate of sea level rise in the area?
NOAA has a current site about 200 miles away,
https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?stnid=9759110
The rate seems to be fairly steady at .57 Feet per century.
I would say it will take a few years, for the sea level rise to be an issue.
 
longview said:
People speak of sea level rise like it is something we can change, it is not!
The sea level has been rising for the entire era of Human civilization,
and will continue to rise, until it starts to fall.
Thankfully the rate of the raise is fairly constant, and most of our cities will be unaffected
for several hundred years.
Someone mentioned, Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic.
Well, what does google say,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo_Domingo
Elevation 46 Feet.
What is the rate of sea level rise in the area?
NOAA has a current site about 200 miles away,
https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?stnid=9759110
The rate seems to be fairly steady at .57 Feet per century.
I would say it will take a few years, for the sea level rise to be an issue.
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There are wonderful ancient ports all around the Mediterranean that are best visited in scuba-ware.
 
joG said:
There are wonderful ancient ports all around the Mediterranean that are best visited in scuba-ware.
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You mean the ones that sank from subsidence, or other changes, besides sea level rise.
We know the circular harbor of Carthage was mentioned in 200BC, yet is still clearly
visible 2200 years later.
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.8444943,10.3247896,415m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
If sea levels had risen the 20 some odd feet that much of old Alexandria sits under,
it would have also covered the harbor at Carthage.
I am not saying that the sea levels are not raising, only at a slow and steady rate,
which we Humans have little control of.
 
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