Sand Dune Erodes?–Blame It On Climate Change!
By Paul Homewood
This story has been well coordinated to hit the world’s media at the end of COP28:
People moved to El Bosque in the 1980s to fish. Setting out into the Gulf of Mexico in threes and fours, fishermen returned with buckets of tarpon and long, streaked snook. There was more than enough to feed them, and build a community – three schools, a small church and a basketball court on the sand.
Then climate change set the sea against the town.
Flooding driven by some of the world’s fastest sea-level rise and by increasingly brutal winter storms has all but destroyed El Bosque, leaving piles of concrete and twisted metal rods where houses used to line the sand. Forced to flee the homes they built, locals are waiting for government aid and living in rentals they can scarcely afford.
This story has been well coordinated to hit the world’s media at the end of COP28, as a quick Google reveals:
The nearest long running tide gauge to El Bosque is Galveston, which you may recall was wiped out by “climate change” in 1900:
The tide gauge there gives the lie to accelerating sea level rise, or that it is something new due to man:
https://www.tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?id=8771450
The Daily Mail commenters have almost to a man worked out what the naive reporter cut & pasted. El Bosque, which was only inhabited in the 1980s, is built on a sand dune.
It is hardly surprising that it is quickly eroding away:
Expect more sob stories like this one in coming weeks, as the climate establishment attempts to make us all feel guilty about using fossil fuels.
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Thank you for pointing me to them ! They restore my faith in human nature (and common sense!)
A rush of climate scares after cop 28, Bill and Mellisa tiger mosquitos coming to get us, then this sand dune erosion, of course we have had the cliff collapse on IOW, and the demolition of cliff top homes at Hemsby, all down to climate change, NOT, If you have a home on the edge of a cliff it is going to collapse at some time, that is what a cliff does…….I think common sense is winning the battle on the climate change scam.
They all made a run for the border.
“Flooding driven by some of the world’s fastest sea-level rise”
What does that tell you…the issue CANNOT be a global process but a local on and let us see. It is sand dune. It is not static also put people on top of it and it will dewater which means it will collapse.
I do not know what the Mail thinks it will achieve with this utter asininity. Like their Arts graduate friends they are so stupid they do not know that anything less or more than a global average is due to other issues!
Yep I am all broke up….still I will be cheered up next week when I get my BP and Shell dividends.
El Bosque is at the opposite end of the Yucatan peninsula from Cancun, but this sort of scare-mongering with regard to the Mexican coast is nothing new, sadly:
‘Town’ you say.🤔.Having looked at the picture I’m not sure that gaggle of huts would qualify.
“The World’s fastest sea level rise…”
This illustrates the ignorance of the reporter. Water does not flow uphill, so if there is any sea level rise it’ll be the same throughout the world.
Of course actual sea levels any one place will vary due to tidal conditions, sand and silt build up, wind, land subsidence and the like. But these local variations are nothing to do with sea level rise due to melting land ice, which is the only rise that can be attributed to “climate change”.
Thermal expansion.
Yes indeed – and that’ll cause exactly the same sea level rise throughout the world. Talking about a location having the “fastest sea level rise” is nonsense and shows the ignorance of the reporter.
Changes in the strength or position of ocean currents can cause sea levels in some areas to rise faster than in others, although obviously this has nothing to do with global warming.
‘The remains of houses are pictured as rising sea levels are destroying homes built on the shoreline’
I think I see the problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spit_(landform)
This one might be called a “hooked-spit” but there are several names that apply.
Most places do not allow settlement on these. See:
https://www.dcnr.pa.gov/StateParks/FindAPark/PresqueIsleStatePark/Pages/default.aspx
No building codes/enforcement. So when they are washed away, it’s CLIMATE CHANGE !!!
Sea coast dunes are temporary by their nature. They can move in any direction or be totally removed by the sea and deposited on a different beach. Over the past 20 years I’ve watched a large dune the size of a football stadium move from one side of a road to the other. It’s now moving back again.
It’s pointless trying to protect them although councils everywhere love to waste our money on green pipedreams.
One wonders . . . are the ecofascists too stupid to know this, or are they getting desperate, blaming ‘climate change’ for the shifting sands?
I vote both.
Guilty on both, and more.
Climate Crisis is up to its dirty tricks again.
Scientists stunned as Himalayas get cooler despite global climate crisis.
A surprising phenomenon has emerged in the mighty Himalayas that might slow down the effects of the global climate crisis. Scientists have noted that when high temperatures hit high-altitude ice masses, ‘katabatic’ winds are triggered that blow cold air to lower-altitude areas.
https://www.wionews.com/science/scientists-stunned-as-himalayas-get-cooler-despite-global-climate-crisis-669151
add on sand mining in Mexico devastating to coastlines.