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The height is not quite the salient factor here though. It's being on the shore when there's hurricanes eroding the land. It's not that the sea level is rising
by spywaregorilla 2y ago
The height is not quite the salient factor here though. It's being on the shore when there's hurricanes eroding the land. It's not that the sea level is rising above where the house used to be. It's that the land is being pulled away by hurricanes.
- defrost 2y agoThis post in toto is about erosion, not sea level rise, but both are related to AGW factors; increased total energy trapped at the lowest land | sea layer by increased insulation of the sky above also increases storm energy and general kinetic energy of the water. There's increasing shear cutting action for erosion, increasing height reach in storms and more slowly and steadily in mean sea levels. It's certainly distance from shore (and geology) that provides security here rather than height .. the UK famously has 100+ ft cliffs eroding away into the sea and taking houses with them, that's been ongoing for centuries but is accelerating of late.