Outer Banks Homes Collapsing Is Just a Taste of What’s to Come
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-11-26/outer-banks-homes-collapsing-is-just-a-taste-of-what-s-to-come?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2NDE2NDg4MywiZXhwIjoxNzY0NzY5NjgzLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNkMxQ1pLR0lGUFcwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIxMkE1QzVFRUNERDg0NUJEQjVFOTM1MUE0Mzk4QTAxNCJ9.KoQ6v8rwlTdycSo6lYM_Omc2SK2uRWkA_YFoISNuef0
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Openopenopenopen@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 257d
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · -2 pts · 257d
That's just erosion. It's what happens when you build on coasts. Climate change is something else entirely.
silence7@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 257d
Warmer temperatures got ice melting. This raised sea level a bit, and increased the rate of erosion
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 257d
Yes, but scale and diversity of phenomena are going to be spectacular. Building and losing shitty homes on coasts doesn't really do the topic justice.
Tiresia@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 256d
Storms increase in intensity and frequency with climate change, increasing rates of erosion. Most homes built to survive any weather except the worst storm of the past 10,000 years will not survive this century.