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Coastal Adaptation to Climate Change, National Sierra Club Climate Emergency Grass Roots Network

By Bruce Melton PEGigs and Presentations

National Sierra Club Climate Adaptation and Restoration Grassroots Network – Climate Change, Coastal Adaptation and Resilience Presentation: 54 days in 2019, high tide on Padre Island during non-storm periods was eroding the dunes. Normal is almost zero. This presentation is a documentation of the King Tides and normal sunny day high tides that have already…

October 14, 2020

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Beach Report: King Tide Dune Erosion, South Padre Island, May 20-23

By Bruce Melton PEBeach Report, Beaches coastal, Impacts, Sea Level Rise

Significant Sunny Day Beach Erosion on South Padre Island, Beyond the King Tide It’s still beautiful, but this is nowhere close to sustainable. It’s catastrophic, but it’s virtually unknown. The beach is nothing like in our past where sea level rise was not an issue. Most of the wilderness beach on almost all of Padre…

June 5, 2019

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Remember, average global warming over land is double the global average because of the cooling influence of our oceans and ice sheets, or 3.56 degrees C in December (6.4 F). and the average over the arctic is four times the global average or 7.12 C (12.8 F). Importantly, the increase in extreme temperature is far greater than the average, and extreme weather increases nonlinearly because of the basics of heat and energy physics, where a little warming does not create a little more extremeness in the weather, it creates a lot more.

Coastal Adaptation to Climate Change, National Sierra Club Climate Emergency Grass Roots Network

Beach Report: King Tide Dune Erosion, South Padre Island, May 20-23

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