{"id":3705,"date":"2011-08-04T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T04:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=3705"},"modified":"2011-07-18T20:19:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T00:19:09","slug":"year-2-month-8-day-5-west-coastin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-2-month-8-day-5-west-coastin\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 2, Month 8, Day 4: West Coastin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montereyherald.com\/state\/ci_18498974\">The July 18 Monterey Herald (CA) reports on a study of Pacific coastal erosion<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The storms that battered the West Coast during the winter of 2009-10 eroded record chunks of shoreline, and more will likely disappear as the changing climate brings more such powerful storm seasons, scientists warn in a new study.<\/p>\n<p>Pacific waves were 20 percent stronger on average than any year since 1997 and higher-than-usual sea levels drove them further inland, tearing away on average one-third m ore land in California.<\/p>\n<p>The state&#8217;s beaches were &#8220;eroded to often unprecedented levels,&#8221; said Patrick Barnard, a coastal geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey who led the research.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the kind of winter we may experience more frequently&#8221; as global temperatures rise, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Nowhere along the West Coast was erosion more pronounced than at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. That winter, the Pacific encroached 184 feet inland, 75 percent more than in a typical season. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe scientists should hold up a big flag when they have something important to say?  Sent July 18:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When the U.S. Geological Survey&#8217;s Patrick Barnard says, &#8220;there&#8217;s no indication (of) a light at the end of the tunnel anytime soon, given the current trends that we&#8217;re observing,&#8221; he&#8217;s using language designed for careful and accurate communication.  But anyone who understands &#8220;science-speak&#8221; will recognize the signs: Dr. Barnard is extremely alarmed.  While his team&#8217;s research on the Pacific coastline&#8217;s future in a post-global-warming world has scary enough implications for communities on the ocean&#8217;s edge, when you consider that countless regional environments and ecosystems around the planet face similar disturbances, these are frightening findings indeed.  Take the changes faced by Ocean Beach and multiply them a hundred thousand times, and you can begin to imagine the disruptions the coming climate chaos will bring.  In their precise and unemotional way, the scientists are shouting out a warning: we must act now if we are to mitigate the storms of the coming centuries.<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The July 18 Monterey Herald (CA) reports on a study of Pacific coastal erosion: The storms that battered the West Coast during the winter of 2009-10 eroded record chunks of shoreline, and more will likely disappear as the changing climate brings more such powerful storm seasons, scientists warn in a new study. Pacific waves were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[840,978,927,688],"class_list":["post-3705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-coastlines","tag-erosion","tag-oceans","tag-scientific-consensus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3705"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3709,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705\/revisions\/3709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}