Call it global warming

[air2spare]

...or global cooling, either way it looks like the creek is rising

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100324/...pearing_island

[printer2]

Maybe the water did not rise but the island sunk.

[bootlen]

There is an island just 20 miles from here that is disappearing. It's called Hunting Island. When I was a kid, the lighthouse was about a mile from the beach. Today, it's about 100 yards from the beach. It's called EROSION!! SHEESH!!

The ocean levels have not changed here since I was a kid.

[printer2]

There is an island just 20 miles from here that is disappearing. It's called Hunting Island. When I was a kid, the lighthouse was about a mile from the beach. Today, it's about 100 yards from the beach. It's called EROSION!! SHEESH!!

The ocean levels have not changed here since I was a kid.

When the water is high enough to wash the island away, it is pretty much erosion. Could this be what the scientists are warning about?

[bootlen]

When the water is high enough to wash the island away, it is pretty much erosion. Could this be what the scientists are warning about?

Dunno. We've got a 7 foot swing in tides here. There's a 50 foot swing somewhere in the NE corner of the continent. I recommend you don't go there. You'll panic twice a day.

[printer2]

Dunno. We've got a 7 foot swing in tides here. There's a 50 foot swing somewhere in the NE corner of the continent. I recommend you don't go there. You'll panic twice a day.

What makes you think I do not now?

[air2spare]

There is an island just 20 miles from here that is disappearing. It's called Hunting Island. When I was a kid, the lighthouse was about a mile from the beach. Today, it's about 100 yards from the beach. It's called EROSION!! SHEESH!!

The ocean levels have not changed here since I was a kid.

do not confuse sand bars with islands

[air2spare]

When the water is high enough to wash the island away, it is pretty much erosion. Could this be what the scientists are warning about?

how do you wash away an island made of rock?

[geerair]

do not confuse sand bars with islands

Exactly.

Also do not confuse sand with rock or innundation due to rising waters and beach erosion due to storms and tide action.

[geerair]

There is an island just 20 miles from here that is disappearing. It's called Hunting Island. When I was a kid, the lighthouse was about a mile from the beach. Today, it's about 100 yards from the beach. It's called EROSION!! SHEESH!!

The ocean levels have not changed here since I was a kid.

Jeez, no wonder the global warming denier crowd gets laughed at so often.

[bootlen]

do not confuse sand bars with islands

I didn't. The island itself is literally moving south. Beach in HI disappearing. Sand bars building up just off next island south...Fripp Island.

[air2spare]

I didn't. The island itself is literally moving south. Beach in HI disappearing. Sand bars building up just off next island south...Fripp Island.

That is a barrier island (sand bar) and very vulnerable to erosion. A volcanic island certainly can't erode away in any of our lifetimes.

[duckman373]

Jeez, no wonder the global warming denier crowd gets laughed at so often.

You mean by the 23% majority that believes in it?