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Climate Cultists Blame Rising Seas For The Naturally Shifting Sands of Barrier 
Islands (no, really)

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. [emphasis, links added]

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 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 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:

Another house has collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean along North Carolina's 
coast, the sixth to fall along the Cape Hatteras National Seashore's beaches in 
the past four years, according to U.S. National Park Service officials. North 
Carolina's coast is almost entirely made up of narrow, low-lying barrier 
islands that are increasingly vulnerable to storm surges and to being washed 
over from both the bay and the sea as the planet warms. As sea levels rise, 
these islands typically move toward the mainland, frustrating efforts to hold 
properties in place.

There is so much that is wrong in just those three sentences.

For starters, it describes a barrier island as if it is the crown of an 
otherwise submerged mountain or coral atoll, and thus vulnerable to 
[submersion] as the seas rise around it.

But barrier islands are nothing of the sort. They are impermanent deposits of 
sand, which reshape, move, merge, appear, and disappear due to tides, winds, 
and storms.

The movement of barrier islands is not due to rising sea levels, it is due to a 
naturally occurring force called "longshore drift."

Where there are man-made efforts to stabilize barrier islands with jetties and 
sea walls, this produces other impacts on currents that cause erosion in some 
waterfront areas and new sand deposits in others.

Beach houses in the Outer Banks are not being lost due to rising sea levels, 
they are being lost due to shifting sands.

Winds blow the tide in at an angle against the island, not perpendicularly, but 
the backflow of seawater will follow gravity, which is effectively 
perpendicular to the island. This has the effect of slowly moving the barrier 
island in the direction that the wind is "pushing" it.

According to NOAA's website, "Longshore drift may also create or destroy entire 
barrier islands along a shoreline. A barrier island is a long offshore deposit 
of sand situated parallel to the coast. As longshore drifts deposit, remove, 
and redeposit sand, barrier islands constantly change."

Tucker's Island, just north of Atlantic City, New Jersey, is an example of a 
once-populated barrier island that completely disappeared. It was not submerged 
by rising tides, rather, the island's sands were shifted by longshore drift 
until the island no longer existed.

The Philadelphia Inquirer published a story about Tucker's Island in 2015 
titled The Mystique of New Jersey's Atlantis.

The small, picturesque island off the southern end of Long Beach Island was 
once a popular seaside resort. It had a lighthouse, life saving station, two 
rustic hotels, 20 summer cottages, and a community meetinghouse that served as 
a church and school. Vacationers from Philadelphia and southern New Jersey 
relaxed there as long ago as the late 1860s, enjoying its peaceful solitude, 
cool breezes, fishing, hunting, sailing, swimming and clam bakes. But Tucker's 
Island's days were numbered. Year by year, ocean tides and storms eroded it. 
The hotels closed in 1910 and later collapsed and were washed away. The 
lighthouse fell in 1927.

This NOAA link shows a series of historical maps of the New Jersey shore dating 
back to 1856, showing the constantly changing shape, size, and location of 
Tucker's Island, until it eventually disappeared to ultimately be replaced by 
growth on the southern tip of Long Beach Island. ...

Like so much else related to the phony "climate crisis," stories of rising seas 
eating away at barrier islands are dishonest misrepresentations of naturally 
occurring events.

http://archive.today/2022.02.14-085655/https:/www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-
08/why-are-hundreds-of-pacific-islands-getting-bigger/13038430
http://archive.today/2023.04.18-
121134/https:/www.inquirer.com/philly/news/new_jersey/20150823
_The_mystique_of_New_Jersey_s_Atlantis.html
http://archive.today/2024.02.24-
040451/https:/oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/tutorial_currents/media/supp_cur0
3c.html
http://archive.today/2024.02.24-
040528/https:/oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/tutorial_currents/media/supp_cur0
3e.html%2301_NJ_1856
http://archive.today/2024.06.21-114912/https:/apnews.com/article/rodanthe-
house-beach-collapse-ocean-42a87d8019d94de228a523d78669ca54
http://archive.today/2024.06.21-115135/https:/apnews.com/article/environment-
north-carolina-national-park-service-950b7804ae04d5798665429cc5afa226
https://climatechangedispatch.com/97-of-186-maldives-island-coasts-have-grown-
or-not-changed-since-2005/
https://climatechangedispatch.com/ap-spreads-phony-claim-that-climate-change-
is-imperiling-brown-pelicans/
https://climatechangedispatch.com/boston-meteorologist-falsely-claims-climate-
change-ruining-lighthouses/
https://climatechangedispatch.com/pope-francis-says-world-at-breaking-point-
from-climate-change-data-shows-thats-false/
https://climatechangedispatch.com/rising-sea-levels-no-cause-for-apocalyptic-
climate-claims/
https://climatechangedispatch.com/state-of-the-climate-2023-no-observational-
evidence-for-any-global-climate-crisis/
https://climatechangedispatch.com/the-wapo-sinks-even-lower-falsely-reports-on-
southern-coastal-sea-level-rise/
https://climatechangedispatch.com/weather-extremism-and-the-politics-of-
climate-fear/
https://dailycaller.com/2018/09/21/maldives-global-warming-sea-level/
https://the-pipeline.org/record-temperatures-a-statistical-certainty/
https://www.internetgeography.net/topics/what-is-longshore-drift/

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June:

Feet Of June Snow Hit Fonna, Norway As Europe Turns Blue

Eastern Australia Shivers

Record June Snow In The Alps

Summer In Japan Arrives a Little Late

Europe Chills

It Was A Cold May For Many

Heavy Snow Hits Northeast Iceland

UK Enduring A Historically Cold June

Frosts on June 11

Summer Snow In Northern India

50 Billion Tons Of Snow Has Fallen On Greenland So Far In June

Snowstorm In Himalayas Kills At Least 9

Snow Hits Parts of South Africa For First Time In 40 Years

Scotland Sees Snow

Global Temperature Drop (of COURSE... Hunga Tonga's Water Vapour!)

Warnings Issued In South Africa For "Disruptive Cold And Snow"

Coldest May Lows In 70-Years Hit Wagnerite, Australia

Argentina Abnormally Cold

Almost 7-Feet of June Snow Traps Hikers In German Alps

Snow Set For Scotland

Rare Frost Advisories In Ontario

It's Snowing In Northern India

Spring Freeze "Sharply Reduces" Russia's Wheat Harvest

Summer Skiing In Europe After Record-Breaking Spring Snow

Record Cold Strikes Japan

Frigid Streak At The South Pole

Low Olive Harvest In Greece Due To 'Weather Shifts'

Greenland's Record Ice Gains

Colder-Than-Average May In Europe

South America Freezes

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May:

U.S. Ski Industry Reports 5th-Best Season On Record
"Deep, Drifting Snow" Keeps Beartooth Closed
The Suess de Vries Cycle
Spring Anomalies From BC To SoCal
Winter Prolonged In Alaska
Australia's Cold And Snow
Chile's Weather Agency Got It Dead Wrong As South America Freezes
Spring Anomalies From BC To SoCal
Record May Cold Hits South Australia
Latest Snowfall In Decades At Snoqualmie
Frozen Turkey