Waves grow up to 13 feet tall in California as Earth warms, research finds (San Diego: rental, insurance)

[Tulemutt]

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Waves are getting bigger and surf at least 13 feet (about 4 meters) tall is becoming more common off California’s coast as the planet warms, according to innovative new research that tracked the increasing height from historical data gathered over the past 90 years.
https://apnews.com/article/ocean-wav...7b40a716924765

[Ruth4Truth]

That doesn't sound good. It sounds like the oceans are becoming more dangerous. It also means, that storm surges will be larger, and will be eroding cliffsides more. say "goodbye" to places like Pacifica, Trinidad, CA, scenic Westcliff Drive in Santa Cruz , etc.

[blameyourself]

Sounds like our otter friend will be doing some hang tens.

[V8 Vega]

Better sell your beachfront property now while you can

[wac_432]

It doesn’t seem to have translated into larger surf. Even with last year’s storms, there have only been a few days of maxxed-out surf, and this summer has been flat like we’re living on the East Coast. Every day I run down to the beach and check the surf. I haven’t seen waves worth paddling out for in at least a month.

Last weekend was okay--not great, but rideable--but I prefer to surf on weekdays to avoid the val kooks.

That said, yeah, I would sell my beachfront property while I could, if I lived at less than 20’ elevation. Once people wake up to sea level rise, it’s all going to be worthless.

Really, if I had beachfront property, I’d convert it into a STVR, form an LLC, sell it to the LLC, then keep taking out the biggest, longest, lowest-interest loans I could get against it, while pumping it for rental money until the waves were lapping at the door, then declare the LLC bankrupt and abandon the property to the bank.

[apple92680]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

That doesn't sound good. It sounds like the oceans are becoming more dangerous. It also means, that storm surges will be larger, and will be eroding cliffsides more. say "goodbye" to places like Pacifica, Trinidad, CA, scenic Westcliff Drive in Santa Cruz , etc.

I was just in Shell Beach, CA the other day looking out on Bluff Drive into the vast and mighty Pacific as it gently lapped up against the shore -- mere feet from what I presume to be million dollar homes. Gorgeous!

First thought that came to mind was how such a splendid view of the sea could also lend itself to such immense vulnerability.

If you GoogleEarth the Bluff Drive area in Shell Beach, you'll see exactly what I'm referring to.

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by apple92680

I was just in Shell Beach, CA the other day looking out on Bluff Drive into the vast and mighty Pacific as it gently lapped up against the shore -- mere feet from what I presume to be million dollar homes. Gorgeous!

First thought that came to mind was how such a splendid view of the sea could also lend itself to such immense vulnerability.

If you GoogleEarth the Bluff Drive area in Shell Beach, you'll see exactly what I'm referring to.

Wow. I wonder how their insurance companies feel about that location.


During a storm last fall or winter, the waves tore out a chunk of the street on Westcliff Dr. in Santa Cruz. The city's decided to turn the two-way street into a 1-way street. And the walkway overlooking the ocean parallel to the street is gone in that section, too. For now they have that area coned off to pedestrians and drivers, both,while the city works on figuring out how to redesign that part of the street.

[NORTY FLATZ]

13 foot waves?

Bring it.

[Igor Blevin]

Media Ignore Underwater Volcano attributed by NASA for latest warming


While alarmists warn that humans are, in fact, contributing dangerous amounts of CO2 to this mix, and blame mankind for summer’s hot temperatures, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has another explanation: a little-publicized but massive underwater volcanic eruption that took place in the South Pacific last year. It hurled a “huge amount of water vapor” into the atmosphere and “could end up temporarily warming Earth’s surface,” NASA cautioned.

Researchers described the amount of water injected into the stratosphere as an unprecedented 13 percent of water already present in that atmospheric layer. The European Space Agency called the eruption “among the most remarkable natural events in the modern observation era.”

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory reports that “the excess water vapor injected by the Tonga volcano would remain in the stratosphere for several years,” causing a temporary warming effect that will “dissipate when the extra water vapor cycles out of the stratosphere.”


https://thenewamerican.com/media-ign...culprit/?tts=1

[NJ Brazen_3133]

The surfers are loving this.