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http://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/news...-displaced
Statewide, the rise would render 25,800 acres of land unusable, displace about 20,000 people and cost $19 billion in lost property and structures, the report estimates.
For Hawaii Island, that means 1,000 people in need of new homes, based on current population levels, loss of 130 structures due to chronic flooding and an economic loss of $439 million due to the loss of structures and land.
Lately I'm wondering if all these "studies" are really intended to justify tax increases.
The other "irony" here: sea level rise is being treated as a long-term future problem, yet Bayfront is closed regularly whenever it's flooded by a storm surge. Didn't Bayfront Motors lose some inventory during one of these floods, forcing their dealership to relocate to higher ground?
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That area is designed to be a flood plane for heavy rains, so it is a bit risky there.
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And another king tide is forecast for New Years Day.
The New Year's Day king tide comes after a year of the exceptionally high tides, which have heightened awareness statewide about rising sea levels.
And the high tides come as communities statewide are grappling with worsening erosion that's eating away at beaches and threatening homes.
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/37161...-king-tide
"You all just got a lot richer." Donald Trump, Dec 23, 2017, speaking to friends, donors, and sycophants who could afford the $200,000 yearly membership fee at Mar-a-Lago.
"I'm at that stage in life where I stay out of discussions. Even if you say 1+1=5, you're right - have fun." - Keanu Reeves
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https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltren...id=1612340
Wow! Time to move to higher ground. 1.44 millimeters per year equals 1 inch every 18 years. The trend is consistent for over a hundred years since the end of the little ice age.
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Saw on tv (some travel channel and therefore must be true) that an island was created off Australia by rising sea level overriding part of a peninsula.
But......that was 7000 years ago, so I guess the ocean getting deeper is not a new thing.
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Land sinks. Land rises. It is the way the Earth works.
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I know, what with the current insanity running the country an al, that denying climate change is all the rage, but do find it interesting how some pick and choose. Science is great when we want something, the TMT for instance, but BS when it tells us things we don't want to hear. Especially at this point when there is so much corroborating evidence that the ice on the planet is melting at an ever increasing rate.
For me, those that deny climate change, and man's role in exacerbating the changes, is an example of just how bad our education system has failed us. To deny so much science, and suggest it's all some Chinese plot blah blah blah, or whatever excuse one wants to glom onto, exposes a serious lack of intellectual development on the part of the deniers.
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Hawaii Fishing News must be paranoido. According to the December issue the study relating global warming to decline in fishing is an attack on fishermen.
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{not directly Puna related]“Science is great when we want something, the TMT for instance, but BS when it tells us things we don't want to hear.”
Like when the left says Man Made Climate Change will kill us all! But gender is a social construct?
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Look on the bright side. In a few decades time, some of us might have oceanside properties we didn't plan on owning and will be able to qualify for the $10K cesspool tax break
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* See http://www.punaweb.org/Forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=24244
