Comments on: Weather alarm

By: Tim Abbott

Tim Abbott — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 17:14:32 +0000

Many thanks for the link and your kind words about Walking the Berkshires. After reading the comments here about sea-level rise, I might add that the salinity of your drinking water, even with that lovely aquifer, might be as great a problem a few decades from now over much of the Cape as the challenge of holding back the sea.

My family’s property on Buzzard’s Bay in Wareham is on a bluff upon which hurricanes gnaw every other decade or so with great relish. An increase in tropical storm intensity may leave us in a tighter spot than sea-level rise. We are actually negotiating a conservation restriction over much of the property with MA Audubon and Wareham Land Trust that anticipates the possible need to relocate house and outbuildings back from an encroaching shoreline and even to convert an old barn on higher ground to a main residence in anticipation of the potential impacts of global climate change on our homestead.

By: tecosystems » links for 2007-01-09

tecosystems » links for 2007-01-09 — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 05:31:52 +0000

[...] Weather alarm at Churbuck.com David commenting on the absurd weather in Boston – it was literally 70’s when i was there this past weekend, and as i point out in a comment the benefits to that don’t come without a cost (tags: global warming CapeCod Churbuck Boston high temperatures) [...]

By: site admin

site admin — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:45:30 +0000

And I am paying for a seawall because the barrier island is gone, Nantucket is gone, and we’re talking major surf on my backdoor.

By: stephen o'grady

stephen o'grady — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:01:53 +0000

and your local economy’s under water

By: site admin

site admin — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 22:23:40 +0000

10 meter rise and I am waterfront.

By: Esteban

Esteban — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:33:22 +0000

My house will be 10 Meters away from a square shaped coast line…

Nice… I hope NASA didn’t get elevation data wrong

By: stephen o'grady

stephen o'grady — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 19:23:49 +0000

looks like my folks’ place in Georgetown will still be above water with a 7M rise (barely).

too bad the road there won’t.

By: Cahill

Cahill — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:50:57 +0000

I think our friends in Denver would disagree with the affects of global warming…

Of course, the clover on my lawn has come back green and I worry I may actually have to mow if we don’t get back to more normal temperatures.

Then, there may be an epic run of warm weather species off the coast this year making for excellent near-offshore fishing.

By: site admin

site admin — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 09:49:22 +0000

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By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:55:45 +0000

Yeah, but David’s up the hill. A nice rise in sea levels might even give him some coastline, up the value of the house, add a nice view, and he can launch the boats from the backyard.

What do we lose? Key West, lower Manhattan and much of California. Call me cold, but I could live with that.

Prepare for the apocalypse; buy sunscreen stock.