Climate Coalition: "Only a small increase in sea-level rise would imperil all of the world's links courses"
A depressing new report on even the slightest change in sea levels suggests most of the world's links are imperiled, with some already on the cusp of major damage in a perfect storm scenario.
From an unbylined BBC report on The Climate Coalition issuing a warning to golf, football and cricket as the sports to be hardest hit, with links courses the most endangered.
The Open is the only one of golf's majors played in the UK and is hosted on links courses, including - as well at St Andrews and Royal Troon - Royal Birkdale, Hoylake, Royal Lytham & St Annes, Muirfield, Sandwich, Turnberry, Portrush and 2018 venue Carnoustie.
It adds that "more than 450 years of golfing history" at Montrose, one of the five oldest courses in the world, is at risk of being washed away by rising seas and coastal erosion linked to climate change.
Research published by Dundee University in 2016 showed the North Sea has crept 70 metres towards Montrose within the past 30 years.
Chris Curnin, director at Montrose Golf Links, said: "As the sea rises and the coast falls away, we're left with nowhere to go. Climate change is often seen as tomorrow's problem - but it's already eating away at our course.
"In a perfect storm we could lose 5-10 metres over just a couple of days and that could happen at pretty much any point."
Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at 10:14 AM
Reader Comments (21)
Trust Nostradamus more than any of those models, he says that St Andrews stays dry for another 500 years, he reserved a 2518 tee time at the Old Course in one of his later quatrains.
I especially loved the use of Nils-Axel Mörner as an expert. Where'd they find that great pic of him without his foil hat?
Hmmm...
Sea levels have been steadily rising at the rate of a few millimeters per year for as long as tidal gauge records have been kept, and, more importantly, show no sign of an acceleration of the long-term trend in the past 50 years from "climate change". Attached is a link to the tidal gauge records at the entrance to New York harbor. They look pretty much the same everywhere else.
https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?stnid=8518750
The alleged "overwhelming scientific consensus" is the "big lie": it's the overwhelming consensus of scientists who benefit from massive funding of climate change research. Simply put, if there is no "climate crisis", then there is no funding, and all of those newly unemployed climate scientists would have to find jobs in legitimate fields of research or go flip burgers.
BTW tide gauges at any one spot are useless in regards to measuring ocean rise. Land masses rise and fall. People who cite this kind of thing are usually parroting nonsense put out by the spin factories.
"NASA satellite altimetry about the oceans" has only existed since 2008, so it can't tell us anything about long-term trends.
I posted that tidal gauge records "look pretty much the same everywhere else", which you can confirm for yourself here:
https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/mslUSTrendsTable.htm
Look at Alaska data on the same NOAA website. It's nothing like NYC, in fact it shows sea levels receding! So are sea levels receding, or is it just local data? I think the latter. Though you probably disagree,
That's our world today. As a famous guy says...Sad.
OK, since 1992 is 26 years. Not long enough to draw any conclusions on long-term trends.
An increase that started 150 years begins 100 years before any man-made "climate change" as asserted by the IPCC; so that data is kind of irrelevant to this discussion. BTW, could you provide links to the data you cite?
Setting aside what's going on Alaska (ground level rising, perhaps, as you mentioned earlier?), I have yet to see any tidal gauge records that show an acceleration in the past 50 years. Have you? Could you link to them?
No shell fish can survive in waters 2 degress centigrade warmer than current temperatures. The world's coral reefs are devastated by warmer water and water flows.
What if the current consensus is only half right? The consequences are still catastrophic. But our generation simply won't entertain concepts that affect our immediate gratification. Too bad for the next inhabitants our planet.
Quote: "The oceans have gotten warmer since the industrial revolution, as water will absorb more heat than land. A warming body of water will expand and have differing effects on weather (mostly in its volatility and extremes)."
This study, published in January, from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, concludes that ocean temperatures have risen just 0.1 degrees C over the past 50 years.
https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/new-study-identifies-thermometer-past-global-ocean
As I already noted, the satellite studies cover an insufficient period upon which to base long-term conclusions, only conjecture.
The attached makes very interesting reading, assuming, of course, one has an interest in the truth about sea level rise and all the factors influencing it (including fudging the satellite data):
https://thsresearch.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/ef_rrt_ca-sea-level.pdf