Still think Global Warming is not real?

My son just got back from Hawaii and he said the beaches are non exitisting in some parts. wow The beginning to the end.

wow the ocean washed away sand ..its the end of the world goverment all over the world have been spending million to replenish beaches since the 50s

I live smack dab in the middle of Florida. Maybe one day I will have beach front property.............................

There is a geological phenomenon called "Mass Wasting" you should check it out. Could explain the missing beach. (besides global warming and climate change)

"As long as the earth remains,
there will be planting and harvest,
cold and heat,
summer and winter,
day and night.”

Genesis 8:22

Really, global warming wasn't started by Al Gore, he supported it.

Global Warming, its a fact...

The habit of belief as caused the possbility of this to planet to die...

I'm pretty sure no one was debating if 'erosion' was real. What does natural erosion have to do with global warming?

And I know I read a few years ago they said that so many millions of tourists frequent the beaches of Hawaii and are taking so much sand home in their shoes etc that they have plans to replenish the sand.

Not to mention that whole sections of the Hawaiian islands have been known to completely slide off into the ocean over the past several million years. Plate tectonics and volcano geology has nothing to do with global warming.... sorry folks.

hmmm i think im gonna start working on my boat house.

Pull your heads out of your asses people. The CATO Institute, and various professional scientists are inexplicably not receiving any coverage in their assertion that global warming is a predictable trend (that, guess what, we predicted!) and any effects we see are going to be mild at best.

There's two sides to every issue, but why is it that the apocalyptic fortune telling side is the only thing we see in the news, in the papers, or online?

I've lived on Kauai for 37 years. I've seen the sand at Wailua beach ebb and flow some times 25 yards from year to year. Thats a lot of sand. There was a big storm yesterday so there is less sand. By the start of next summer all the sand will return just like it has for the past 37 years. If it was up to Fat algor we would all be riding bikes made of hemp and when we got tired we could pull to the side of the road and smoke a spoke while he rides around the world spewing shit out of his private jet. Stop drinking the Kool Aid.

I lived on Oahu for six years, and one of the main issues, not mentioned here, involves human intervention in beach topography, particularly in Kailua. There is a good argument that if people hadn't built so many retaining walls and abutments, ostensibly to preserve 'their' beach, the entire beachfront would not have eroded in this fashion.

However, as mentioned by others above, beach sand ebb and flow is a natural process, and I don't really see any valid argument in this post that would explain how climate change would result in beach erosion, since the prospective rise in sea levels have not yet been experienced.

ya thats cool its called beach erosion, and yes it happens all over the place, and no not from global warming, and believe it or not the hawaiin islands will not always exist. They're on a moving fault and they will eventually go back into the ocean and new ones will form

to answer the original question... yes, i still think it's not real.

the "after this/because of this" argument doesn't even work here... the assertion/implication is that the beaches are eroding BECAUSE of "global warming," which is only a "proven fact" for people who BELIEVE it's a "proven fact."

the comment about beach erosion because of man-made construction screwing up the beaches will be discarded by "believers." that's been true since Day 1 of current.com, and is one of the reasons i'm leaving.

i was on Maui, i think it was, when Iniki passed by. what had been a 20-40-foot beachfront behind the condo was transformed in a day or two into a pile of 2-4' diameter black boulders with a tiny bit of sand snuggled between the rocks.

come back in a year or two and tell us how much further "global warming" has eroded your beach. include before and after pictures. and if you're wrong, admit it.

surprise us all.
ps. in my new home state of NC, we've got the same beach erosion problems, and it's VERY well known, even here, that jetties, groins, and other attempts to "save the beaches" FAIL TOTALLY, and the best thing to do is to let nature do what it wants with the sand and LIVE WITH THE OUTCOME.

but, what the shit do i know, anyway.... :)

Global warming posits rising sea levels that cause the beach loss described in this article. This does not seem to be what is at work here. Beach erosion and harbor silting for that matter is a constant natural process, and has been going on for millennia. Climate cycles are also well-known natural phenomena. Human intervention can neither cause them or prevent them, despite what people with agendas to grow government power and control would have you believe. Before you believe their "data" look at their biases and conflicts of interest.

Erosion and global warming are seperate issues. I can see global warming affecting erosion in some ways, but i'm not convinced that this particular case is a clear sign of global warming in action.

That being said, we fail to recognize that the human race has an impact on the GLOBAL climate and environment at our peril. It is more than merely disheartening to read some of the comments here that disavow any human factor in climate change.
It really is just a simple chemistry experiment. A net 16 BILLION tons of anthropogenic CO2 emissions are added to the atmosphere each year, accordingly to NOAA, eight times the amount emitted in 1950. Atmospheric concentration in parts per million (ppm) has increased during that time from 315ppm to 385ppm, an increase of 22%. (The reason the increase in concentration and the increase in absolute tonnage are different is that the earth has the capacity to absorb a considerable amount of CO2, but we have surpassed that threshold level) Fully half that increase has been experienced since 1989, due to this characteristic.
We are a freight train speeding out of control, but instead of braking, we are literally and metaphorically stoking the fires of our destruction. Not the earth's destruction. Make no mistake. The earth will be here. But what is left may be unrecognizable and/or uninhabitable.

And our bought-off leaders dither, blinded by worries about dollars, instead of acting for our survival.

Maybe it's just high tide...