{"id":13061,"date":"2014-12-12t08:09:04","date_gmt":"2014-12-12t08:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dpetrov.2create.studio\/planet\/wordpress\/bye-bye-beach-days\/"},"modified":"2023-03-07t19:39:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07t19:39:44","slug":"bye-bye-beach-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/bye-bye-beach-days\/","title":{"rendered":"bye-bye beach days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i grew up in a small town called titusville, florida, situated on the north end of a big county that we locals like to call the \u201cspace coast.\u201d once, titusville was a sleepy town, awoken only by the traffic-stopping crowds attracted by shuttle launches. since the end of the shuttle program in 2011, titusville hardly stirs.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height:1.6em\">titusville isn\u2019t only slowing down. <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/globalwarming\/florida\/execsum.asp\" style=\"line-height: 1.6em; text-decoration: none;\">it\u2019s heating up, too. <\/a><span style=\"line-height:1.6em\">but my family and friends shouldn\u2019t get too excited. this doesn\u2019t necessarily mean more beach days on the space coast. in fact, the effects of warmer temperatures might even keep people away from the beach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height:1.6em\">there are only a few things that keep floridians off the water.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height:1.6em\">we stay away from the water when the <\/span><strong style=\"line-height:1.6em\">algae blooms get out of control<\/strong><span style=\"line-height:1.6em\">, making the coastal air both unsafe and unpleasant to breathe. on the lagoon, the stench of miles worth of dead sea grass and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/09\/26\/223037646\/with-murky-water-and-manatee-deaths-lagoon-languishes\" style=\"line-height: 1.6em; text-decoration: none;\">hundreds of dead manatees, pelicans, and dolphins<\/a><span style=\"line-height:1.6em\"> is enough to keep even the most dedicated boater away. and what good is fishing during a bloom anyway? your bounty will be unsafe to eat. as temperatures rise, the chances of these blooms only grow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height:1.6em\">we\u2019ll have no choice but to stay away when <\/span><strong style=\"line-height:1.6em\">rising sea levels<\/strong><span style=\"line-height:1.6em\"> <\/span><strong style=\"line-height:1.6em\">reshape our coastline <\/strong><span style=\"line-height:1.6em\">as we know it. according to the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/nca2014.globalchange.gov\/highlights\/regions\/southeast\" style=\"line-height: 1.6em; text-decoration: none;\">national climate assessment<\/a><span style=\"line-height:1.6em\">, sea levels will rise a projected one to four feet in the next century. that\u2019s over the course of 100 years, but we\u2019ve already seen our beaches reshaped &#8211; or, to state it more accurately, entirely eroded &#8211; <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/apps.brevardcounty.us\/publicinformationreleases\/viewrelease.aspx?id=1000\" style=\"line-height: 1.6em; text-decoration: none;\">by hurricane sandy in 2012<\/a><span style=\"line-height:1.6em\">. two years later, authorities are <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/story\/news\/local\/2014\/02\/22\/beach-project-ready-to-resume\/5716213\/\" style=\"line-height: 1.6em; text-decoration: none;\">still trying to restore our beaches<\/a><span style=\"line-height:1.6em\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height:1.6em\">but aren\u2019t we floridians used to storms? we all know what it\u2019s like to evacuate in bumper-to-bumper traffic up i-95. we all know the routine of moving our plants and lawn furniture inside, taping and boarding our windows, living in darkness when the power goes out and our windows are boarded up. we all know the cost of a flooded living room, a ravaged pool screen, or a fallen tree. we\u2019ve all been to a hurricane party. <\/span><strong style=\"line-height:1.6em\">yeah, maybe we\u2019re used to storms, but are we ready for the<\/strong><span style=\"line-height:1.6em\"> <\/span><strong style=\"line-height:1.6em\">economic consequences as storms become stronger and more frequent?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height:1.6em\">since 1980, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/billions\/mapping\">florida has been hit by 23 storms that cost <\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/billions\/mapping\"><strong style=\"line-height:1.6em\">$1 billion or more<\/strong><\/a><span style=\"line-height:1.6em\">. we cannot forget <\/span>hurricane<span style=\"line-height:1.6em\"> andrew in 1992. we must remember 2004, when florida was hit by four hurricane-strength storms in five weeks. as weather warms, chances of category 4 and 5 hurricanes only increase, putting not only our safety, but our economy &#8211; already fragile since the end of the shuttle program in 2011 &#8211; at risk. <\/span><strong style=\"line-height:1.6em\">if we don\u2019t act now, just one big storm could devastate our homes, our schools, our jobs, and yeah &#8211; even our beach days.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>rising temperatures mean more trouble for florida&#8217;s economy and coastline.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4916,4904],"tags":[360,144,2837],"storyfest_categories":[],"class_list":["post-13061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate","category-water","tag-climate","tag-climate-change","tag-hurricane"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- this site is optimized with the yoast seo plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>bye-bye beach days - planet forward<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/bye-bye-beach-days\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_us\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"bye-bye beach days - planet forward\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"rising temperatures mean more trouble for florida&#039;s economy and coastline.&nbsp;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/bye-bye-beach-days\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"planet forward\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/planetforward.org\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-12-12t08:09:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-03-07t19:39:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"erica halvorson\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@planet_forward\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@planet_forward\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"erica halvorson\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"article\",\"@id\":\"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/bye-bye-beach-days\/#article\",\"ispartof\":{\"@id\":\"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/bye-bye-beach-days\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"erica halvorson\",\"@id\":\"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/#\/schema\/person\/14dedd7588c153db6d7fd39145fb1534\"},\"headline\":\"bye-bye beach days\",\"datepublished\":\"2014-12-12t08:09:04+00:00\",\"datemodified\":\"2023-03-07t19:39:44+00:00\",\"mainentityofpage\":{\"@id\":\"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/bye-bye-beach-days\/\"},\"wordcount\":469,\"commentcount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"climate\",\"climate change\",\"hurricane\"],\"articlesection\":[\"climate\",\"water\"],\"inlanguage\":\"en-us\",\"potentialaction\":[{\"@type\":\"commentaction\",\"name\":\"comment\",\"target\":[\"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/bye-bye-beach-days\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"webpage\",\"@id\":\"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/bye-bye-beach-days\/\",\"url\":\"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/bye-bye-beach-days\/\",\"name\":\"bye-bye beach days - planet forward\",\"ispartof\":{\"@id\":\"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/#website\"},\"datepublished\":\"2014-12-12t08:09:04+00:00\",\"datemodified\":\"2023-03-07t19:39:44+00:00\",\"inlanguage\":\"en-us\",\"potentialaction\":[{\"@type\":\"readaction\",\"target\":[\"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/bye-bye-beach-days\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"website\",\"@id\":\"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/\",\"name\":\"planet forward\",\"description\":\"inspiring stories to 2022年卡塔尔世界杯官网
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