Climate change could damage NASA's space program...
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Climate change could damage NASA's space program...
Published time: December 06, 2014 05:05
University of Florida geologists say climate change that includes sea level rise and wave energy could affect operations at the space center within the next decade. Theyve been studying the dunes and beach at Cape Canaveral since 2009, but it wasnt until Hurricane Sandy hit the Eastern seaboard in 2012 that the effects became more apparent areas that had been stable for years were suddenly gone.
" We were a little blind to it, like pre-Katrina New Orleans, " Assistant Professor Peter Adams, of the UF Geological Sciences department told Phys.org. " Now that we've seen it, we're sensitive to it ."
The geologists said effects are occurring now and they are affecting NASA infrastructure. The dunes that historically protected the Kennedy Space Center were leveled during Tropical Storm Fay in 2008, Hurricane Irene in 2011 and Hurricane Sandy in 2012. And a stretch of beachfront railroad track built in the 1960s was repeatedly covered in recent storms.
We do consider sea level rise and climate change to be urgent , said Nancy Bray, director of center operations for the Kennedy Space Center.
NASA isnt just paying attention to outer space, though, and it has plans for dealing with the effects of stronger tropical storms and more powerful hurricanes. They originally partnered with the US Geological Survey and University of Florida to conduct research into why chronic erosion was occurring along a six-mile stretch of beach, where launch pads were used for Space Shuttle and Apollo missions.
Assistant Professor of Geology John Jaeger said his team was studying why a gap had appeared in a near-shore sandbar allowing more water in towards that section of the beach, and thats when they realized it was sea-level rise and wave climate change that was the issue.
NASA has built a new dune to replace the one that disappeared in tropical storms and hurricanes, but concern is mounting for a two-lane road that runs parallel to the railroad track, since buried underneath are electrical power lines and pipelines that transport liquefied gasses.
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No rules.Beat each other to a verbal pulp for all I care.
Just remember true colors revel themselves.
I would bet that NASA's greatest danger from AGW is that NASA is studying it.
I would bet that the new Republican Congress will cut NASA'S budget by however much it takes to make them quit.
Does "Hey look, the beach is closer" qualify as a study? And how much $ was assigned to it?
The new republican congress has a lot of "friends" in the aerospace industry. They wouldn't be to happy, giving up some of that tax payer pie.
I want to know who's paying for that sweet airboat.
If you don't know about NASA's climate science work... well...
An assumption on your part over a quip on my part.
What? NASA does science fairs too?
That was a "quip"?? Oh... Okay... Sorry.
I don't know about that.
Classic case of biased focus .
What causes beach erosion?
How do you feel about the EPA's science?
No interest in facts & data , just "feelings" ?
For you, I'll make an exception. Fact away son.
Hey, nobody wants to come to rocket science work and not be able eat lunch at the beach. Some really big Gemini and Apollo problems were resolve with sand in their sammiches.
Here are 2 interesting facts about the climate issue :
1] Climatology is too young & undeveloped to be called a science
2] There are some big-dog climatologists who can blackball you if you publish data that disagrees with what they have published .
I think you got the answer brother. I noticed it all started when they started naming these massive storms. Familiarity breed contempt. Brilliant work Robert.
More...more...give us more.
But isn't science defined as a method, aka systematic study?
That definition would include alchemy .
Well OM consider this...
I hate to break it to the EPA, but it's been eroding eons. Some sources say, it was after the world began to cool, 'decades' sounds so small.
Then there is all that sandstone, if we could only find where it is made we could get our beaches back. Think of the jobs it would create in the sandstone crushing industry.
Ya know I always thought they built it next to a big crash site.
Or built below sea level like those crazy Dutch.
Some guy tried to sell me beach front property in Arizona. Told me 'the big one is coming'. Cali would move right out of the way.