But not before The Hurley Pro (fingers crossed)!
The United States of America has one stop on the magnificent World Surf League Championship Tour and it is Lower Trestles. Do you enjoy surfing there? Braving the mad pack of Brazilians? Staking your claim on California’s high performance wave? Making air reverses?
Well you better get your fill now because The Smithsonian says it is going away along with The Wedge, Topanga and Santa Cruz. Let’s read?
It may seem that stronger storms and swells would be a boon to surfers. But as with many aspects of living in a changing climate, the outlook is far more complicated.
As a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey predicts, by 2100 many of Southern California’s most popular surfing spots could be subsumed beneath rising seas. Others could simply wash away.
Beaches are not static places. The very action of the waves that formed them, pulverizing rocks into sand over eons, can unmake them, reports Ramin Skibba for Hakai Magazine. “In Southern California, winter storms and heavy surf pull sand away, and summer waves and sediment from rivers gradually bring it back,” Skibba writes.
Climate change could alter that balance, the new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, suggests. In the next eight decades, Southern California may have to deal with a sea level rise of between 3.3 and 6.5 feet that could erode 31 to 67 percent of the region’s beaches, the researchers say.
That would be a loss for surfers that seek out long, scenic rides at Topanga, the bizarre and brutal break called “The Wedge” at Newport or the classic and beloved “Lower Trestles” outside of San Clemente. (All make Surfer Today’s list of the best Southern California surf spots.) Surf spots where waves break at low tide may disappear when the sea level rises. Spots where waves break at high tide will only break at low tide.
Those measures might prevent some beach erosion, but they don’t have surfer’s needs in mind. For The Inertia, an online surfing community, surfer and scientist Shawn Kelly explains the serious effects climate chance will have on the sport. He brings his authority as a…
Wait just a damned second. The Inertia? How did those kooky bastards weasel into my morning? Well now I don’t know what to believe and, to be honest, am inclined to discount this entire “sea level rise” thing altogether.
The Inertia for Pete’s sake. I mean, seriously. The Inertia. First the pride of Venice-adjacent tries to take the fun out of weed and now this? Now this?
Sons of bitches. Sons of damned bitches.
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miami is basically below sea level and has stayed the same for hundreds of years. global warming is a complete fraud perpetuated by the jews and their minion politicians
only liberal idiots and people in California believe in global warming
Yay! All the yuppies who bought up houses in my neighborhood to use as fucking rentals will hopefully be up to their ears and we will create a brand new reef using their Porshes and cast iron claw footed bath tubs.
California is on a massive fault line, right? A good quake there may raise the middle finger to global warming…
Had a 7.8 in my hometown last year and the sea-bed rose 1.2m on average. Boom, I’m back to using coal to brew my coffee in the morning.
gonna be like Nias
Hey Smithsonian, stop being such a half empty glasser! Think of all the new waves that will form. I, for one, can’t wait to surf the thousands of artificial reefs formerly know as beachfront homes.
That’s what I’m talking about. In your face, Malibu!
The joy of surfing above DiCaprio’s old house! Is there a better break name than Pussy Posse’s??
You let the looneys out of the cage with that post
bullshit argument based on bullshit research. lets see the data and how they came up with those seal level rise figures.
Probably comes from the IPCC – who are experts in their fields!
Do you really believe what you are saying or do you just want to believe what you are saying?
If the “seal level” rises it’s safe to say tides will too from all the water they displace. The seals will have no beach to lay. Bacteria levels will also probably increase due to the rise in the seal population’s excrement. Seal level rise is a valid scientific concern Juntao and everyone else should take seriously.
We best get to some seal culling and cut this shit off at the pass.
Save Trestles; club a seal!
Don’t bring a club to a gun fight
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Yeah let’s see the data! I want the truth! I want the proof! Also..fuck those seals too
IPCC, Google it Donald!
i think it is in your asshole.
Predictions vs. Reality
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I think we’ll be quite safe
The Christy graph shows some excellent statistical manipulation/A-grade trolling depending on your point of view.
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here’s one for the deniers , at the start of last century , the first cars could drive along the beach from trestles to san Diego , on the beach! Here in Australia we are losing beach front on every storm and tide surge , in my lifetime I am seeing major implications of sea level rise , as is Miami. By 2050 we will be experiencing major problems at surf beaches , mostly backwash and brown water from ocean waves and tides. but Juntao if you voted for Donald or Pauline , your position is understandable ?
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scientists manipulate data to further the agendas of the leftists governments who fund their research, with the goal of increasing regulations and taxes to make the government richer and take power away from the people. I know its like really trendy and cool to think you’re an environmentalist because you blindly believe every climate change article you’ve ever read, but wake up, do some research for yourself, and make your own opinion. Here is an article you will probably hate! https://www.forbes.com/site…
so the scientists only like liberal money? fuck, someone finally cracked the code!
Nope, through the wonder of taxation, they get it from everybody. Go manbearpig!
hahahahahahaha forbes hahahahahahahaha
Ah, laughter, the sound climate “scientists” make when they program their “models” to show a massive temp. rise despite all evidence to the contrary.
If the earth doesn’t actually cooperate with thier attempt to increase taxation and control behavior, they can always Hide the Decline Juntao!