Comments on: Global warming picture pairs, coastal erosion.

By: Nicole Paluszek

Nicole Paluszek — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 02:24:32 +0000

Coastal erosion is a real and serious problem, but it has absolutely nothing to do with the alleged effects of “global warming”. So far not a shred of evidence has been produced for rising sea levels or increased intensity of storms.
Coastal erosion is 99.9% caused by unsound coastal land development and -management practices such as dune destruction and construction of seawalls, roads, and buildings on or near the shoreline.
Where these unsound practices have been scrapped and replaced with sound ones, eroded coasts have been seen to regenerate themselves completely to pre-development levels.

By: pavingdoug

pavingdoug — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:09:26 +0000

The two pictures are taken from the same angle you can tell just from the windows on the building. I’ve photo shopped them, they are at the same distance and angle but, the difference is the first picture was taken earleir in the day and the other was taken when the tide was comming in. I have seen pictures from the state of Mass that were legit. there was a big difference in the shore line and also a rode that was washed away. This picture is a true hoax.

By: Steve Hollar

Steve Hollar — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:22:53 +0000

What a crock of nonsense. The first picture looks like it was taken with snow on the ground, and, it is above the cliff where the road is visible. The second picture is taken below the cliff on the beach. Open your eyes and your minds people. It shows absolutely nothing.

And now that it is 2009, I’m sure that house and beach are still there. The Tuvalu islands are still doing just fine. Now the doom and gloomers are pushing the time frame way into the future, long after all of us are gone.

This whole thing has been one pathetic joke.

By: luisa

luisa — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:17:47 +0000

global warming should be taken seriously becuase i dont want to DIE at a young age like 2 years old i want to enjoy my life and live until im 18 when i experience getting drunk

By: Diana

Diana — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:41:05 +0000

I believe that this whole society needs to stop worrieng about small things and focus on these major things which if not stopped later on in the future(if there is a future) will be full of hurricanes and other things as an average day thing. So try and do something for the environment, it wont hurt you and you children or grandchildren will have great benefits out of this great action.

By: Cutiie 3mma

Cutiie 3mma — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:43:20 +0000

I think know matter what erosion and global warming is happening fast and if we don’t stop it nobody will live so everyone better buck up there ideas or maybe your children’s children or even your children won’t live…

By: Shelly

Shelly — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:16:04 +0000

Ahh i dont know about you but i def. dont think this is caused by global warming!! come on!!! ya i agree with that guy its just erosion why does everything in this earth have to be put in with global warming!!! global warming isnt even happening so forget that idea!!!

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:16:36 +0000

These pictures are from the BBC. They have been on the BBC website since 2005. Click through to the original article on the BBC website if you have concerns about photoshopping, and address those concerns to them. Here is what they say in the caption of the picture we're all talking about:

This is a section of shoreline at Cape Hatteras in North Carolina in the USA, pictured in 1999 and 2004. The southern United States and Caribbean region were battered by a series of powerful hurricanes last year [2004]. Rising sea levels are also expected to speed up coastal erosion. Image: Gary Braasch ©

By: scottish lassie

scottish lassie — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:31:21 +0000

you both make good points, however, if you think about it, the second picture was taken at en earlyer part of the day then the first, and yet you see little to no detail to the house, where as in the first one you see a fair deal of detail. this has lead me to belive that the house in the second picture, has eighther been put there through ‘photo shop’ of it was drawn through paint. Besids which the sand did not come out of this air, and even if the water level was that high, then where did the sand come from? water drifts? get real!!!

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 02:39:48 +0000

While this is hardly the best evidence for rising oceans, I believe the different camera angles you refer to are because the later photographer is standing considerably lower down than the first photographer… the place the first photographer was standing has been completely eroded away. Note from the picture that the photographer seems to be standing on the beach, and the wave in the foreground is probably getting his shoes wet.) The poles are hidden by the new shoreline to the right.

By: joe

joe — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:54:45 +0000

OH COME ON ! … If you look close , you`ll see these 2 pics were taken from completely different camera angles …. Where are the power poles in the 2nd pic … The photographer was standing in the ocean in the 2nd pic and on top of a hill in the 1st …. If this is your best photographic eveidence , then we all safe for a few more centuries.

By: Lars Smith

Lars Smith — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:04:43 +0000

I wrote a comment here,
http://conservationfinance.wordpress.com/2006/08/16/photographic-evidence-for-rising-sea-levels/

By: Lars Smith

Lars Smith — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:22:39 +0000

I don’t think the sea has risen that much, I think the picture shows coastal erosion.

TK Response: I think you’re right about this picture. There’s another in the series that looks like more direct evidence of rising sea levels (which in any case have only risen a few inches so far, so it’s hard to see), but one of the first observable (to the eye) effects of rising sea levels will be coastal erosion, especially when combined with more frequent storms, another effect of global warming.