Is it true that long beach is going to be under watever in some time soon?

Question

is it

Answer 1

Not likely to happen in your lifetime.

Answer 2

Are you talking about Long Beach, MS, CA or NY?

I live in the Bluff Park section of LB and the water would have to rise 40 feet in order to crest over the top of the bluffs.

The Peninsula has problems with flooding since it isn't at the top of a bluff.

When EMT-B (He/she should get best answer) gave that answer I remembered the article I saw in the District weekly.

Copy and pasted from The District article.

Long Beach’s history of subsidence problems—the sinking of its land as vast stores of oil are withdrawn thousands of feet below—has been a big part of the city’s history, period, almost since the first wells were drilled in the mid-1930s. Its price tag—in damage suits, repair bills and the never-ending cost of staving off more subsidence—is much higher than famous earthquake of 1933. And with the end of Long Beach’s petroleum era probably not that far over the horizon, debate still rages among scientists, politicians, the business community and bureaucrats about what is to be done—and who is qualified to decide—when the price of keeping our heads above water can no longer be skimmed off the top of oil profits.

“The land in some places sank 29 feet before the 1950s, when we began pumping in water to stop it,” Clarke said. “We really don’t know how much more it would have sunk. We really don’t know how we’re going to maintain the very sensitive pressures in those underground reservoirs when we stop producing oil in the next 20 years or so. It’s one of my biggest nightmares.”

Answer 3

NO!

Founder of the Weather Channel:

"It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a SCAM. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create in [sic] allusion of rapid global warming. Other scientists of the same environmental whacko type jumped into the circle to support and broaden the "research" to further enhance the totally slanted, bogus global warming claims. Their friends in government steered huge research grants their way to keep the movement going. Soon they claimed to be a consensus."

Answer 4

I heard this nonsense back in the 1960s when I lived there. I also heard that California was going to break off and become an island. After 40 plus years none of the rumors have happened. I certainly wouldn't worry about it.

Answer 5

Depends on your definition of SOON. Maybe a couple hundred years, SOME of Long Beach MAY be under the sea.

Answer 6

No !!!

Answer 7

No.

Not unless a really powerful hurricane were to destroy it.

But.... We haven't been having bad storms lately so no.

Answer 8

yes it is sinking

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/articl...

http://salticid.nmc.csulb.edu/cgi-bin/We...

i bet you were going to try to blame it on global warming.