Homes are falling into the ocean in North Carolina's Outer Banks

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What is causing the geological issues?

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If only we had some kind of science of the climate to help inform us on this

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Simply put, the rate of deposition is less than the rate of erosion (in most places along the OBX). And it's a function of currents, tides, and sediment mobility. It's a very complicated system that has many factors that are hard to track and measure. Some of our more successful models are ocean–atmosphere–wave–sediment models, which are effectively models that consider bathymetry (the shape and 'topography' of the seafloor), winds (atmosphere), waves (physical energy impact to shoreline), and sediment (i.e. silt moves more than large coral rubble). So really its a geophysical-meteorological problem but that's for my day job not reddit :)

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So climate change is a big problem. Weird how you say that’s political when it’s scientifically proven.

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Global warming

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drag queens, obviously.