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| When We Got The Building Permit The High-Tide Line Was Far Away |
When house building permits are granted the safety and security of the structure must be considered, including a safe distance from the ocean, or else the permitting authority is negligent.
Scientific authorities bear the major portion of disinformation when new houses are currently built along the coast:
"Most of these threatened homes were built on these barrier islands between the 1970s and 1990s [30-50 yrs ago], originally standing hundreds of feet from the Atlantic Ocean. Today, homes in the Outer Banks cling to a shoreline eroding at rates of up to about 20 feet per year. This erosion is driven by rising sea levels ..."
(Coastal Review). Homes are not the only things that are built along the coastlines and other tide-impacted areas (Seaports With Sea Level Change, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35; Calculating Port Dangers, 2, 3, 4);
The danger to seaports is real too.
Consider the possibility that the ocean depths can become saturated in terms of photon-absorbing capacity (The Photon Current, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 , 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22).
That can alter, from time to time, how much infrared photon heat they can absorb (In Search Of Ocean Heat, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22).
Today's appendices feature CSV files (Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Polar) so readers can do their own graphing, etc.
But graphs generated from data in the CSV appendices are also provided (Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Polar).
The graphs were made using the CSV file mean averages of WOD zone values, calculated using the TEOS-10 C++ library ... as usual.
The "Atlantic" and "Pacific" includes the North, Equatorial, and Southern regions of those oceans; the "Polar" means the Arctic and the Antarctic regions; while the "Indian" is just the plain Indian Ocean.
We should remember this quote from the Navy Admiral featured in the video below:
"I have ... had a really senior person come up to me and say 'hey Titley why does the Navy care about sea level rise' ... it's like well we're the Navy we tend to build our bases at sea level. I mean it's just kind of a fact of that's where you put ships, but it's more than that. It's the US infrastructure. Look at where our oil refineries are, look at where those are, look at ... they're all around Houston right? New Orleans, they're in the Back Bay out by Oakland, It's all its sea level. There's tremendous infrastructure that this will have an issue for. So we've got to think think about that".
(From about 20:25 - 20:58 in the video). He is in tune (Shipping data: UNCTAD releases new seaborne trade statistics).
The previous post in this series is here.
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