The reason I made this a topic is because of the potential cost for any damage / repairs to infrastructure. If the water continues to rise and there is severe ice damage this winter we may have to open our pockets and add to the tax coffers.

I played hooky today and spent some time taking photos. I first went to Little Sable Point. I fear the light house there is in peril. I would hate to see it damaged or destroyed. Many homes along the Lake are in a serious situation of being destroyed if the erosion continues.

Next I visited the boat ramp parking lot and Ludington Ave beach, then the City Marina. All had issues with high water. The following photos are a small fraction of what I took. I didn't include the new construction at Ludington ave beach because all there was to see is water.

Little Sable Point lighthouse. If this lighthouse does not make it thru the winter we will be losing a major tourist draw and a lot of history. I hope there is something in the works to protect this monument to maritime history.

Boat launch parking lot takes a real beating when water is high because the waves crash against the breakwater instead of scraping the sand bottom. The breakwater can take only so much pounding without significant damage.

City Marina docks and the walkway are being damaged as we speak from high water. If the water doesn't recede then the next problem will be the damage caused by ice which could possibly cost a fortune to repair.

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This scientist's opinion must have some merit since it's published in Discover magazine by an author who got their degrees in science reporting, human physiology, and anthropology.  Ha, ha, ha.

Tim Lenton, the only source for the article you quote, has been writing about 'tipping points' since the early 2000s, he has no degree in weather or climate issues, rather it's in earth science.  This is yet another one of his refined reports about Tipping Points, apparently beyond which changes to the climate system cannot be stopped.  Scary, but fifteen years of missed tipping points isn't a great record when you're talking real science.

Since the earth’s climate has been warming and cooling for hundreds of millions of years, with wide differences in temperatures, it appears the latest is another exercise designed to frighten children and the naïve-- and score some more grants from those pushing the agenda of global warming. 

If you want to hear from a real climate scientist with a lot more experience, here's what Judith Curry has written regarding Tim Lenton's theses over the years.   It doesn't have hyperbole or Doomsday predictions, just analysis and science, so it may be unreadable for many AGW cultists.

 On the subject of the earth tilting causing polar changes . I had a dream once that a concrete truck was delivering a load in New York city where a huge complex was being built . As the truck was pouring the concrete the weight off balanced the earth off its axis and the planet earth wobbled off into oblivion. LOL   Don't know what that meant.

It probably meant you had some extra potent corn-squeezins before bedtime.

These problems are easily avoidable in real life.  When you pour the concrete off in NY, You just need to make sure somebody in LA is doing the same at the same time, thus the catastrophic event you described never happens.

Got it! Those were the Flat Earth people.  

Sorry I was blowing stuff in a hurry without much explanation. Here's a link which may help your dreams! For those who think the warming trend is all about green house gases, it's more properly called axial tilt.

https://www.universetoday.com/47176/earths-axis/

And here is a NASA engineer take on the 40,000 year axial tilt causing ice ages. But he is refuted by greenhouse gas scientists too.  Personally I am affected by a favorite resort on Figi nearing flooding and sinking.  They'll have to move to another island.  That's called "island hopping."

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/Milankovitch/milankovitc...

The Milankovitch paper was published in 2000.  This was just as global Warming/climate change talk was attacked and poo-pooed by corporate producers of oil products. You can be certain that their scientists knew very well about Arctic ice loss, as did the US Corps of Engineers. The former Governor of Florida ( a convicted felon) formally forbade State-employed scientists from using words like Global warming/ climate change in submitted papers. Sadly, he is now a US Senator, po$$ibly after help from Lev and Igor.  So there is now the OFFICIAL political position in the USA to avoid using the knowledge that we already have, while attacking atmospheric and earth science.  Meanwhile there is very poor treatment of the ONLY atmosphere that we have. Which is the only Earthling-breathable atmosphere for millions? of light years from here.  Perhaps some non-Earthlings will come here and save us from ourselves, but there have been no official offers.  

There is ONE coming!

The United Nations just released a new report on climate change – and the findings are bleak.

The report tracks how the world has been unable to keep up with the timeline needed to save our climate and environment.

Global temperatures are predicted to rise as much as 3.2 degrees Celsius by the end of the century. As part of the Paris Climate Agreement, nearly every nation agreed to keep temperatures “well below” 2 degrees Celsius compared with preindustrial levels. The current projections have temperatures shooting past that.

The report found that global greenhouse gas emissions must begin falling by 7.6 percent each year beginning in 2020 to meet the most ambitious aims of the Paris Climate Agreement.

It also lays out the consequences of our dangerous trajectory. Ocean acidity would rise, killing off coral reefs. Flooding would inundate coastal cities and severe heat could become unbearable in many places around the world.

There has never been more urgency to meet this moment with action. The United States should immediately reenter the Paris Climate Agreement – and the Senate should pass the Climate Action Now Act, which has already passed the House.

SEEC members will continue to fight for action big and small, from the Climate Action Now Act to tax credits for clean energy innovation. There is no band-aid for this problem – we must act quickly, from all sides, wherever possible.

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David A Carlson suffers OMB syndrome. Sad.

 

First of all, there is no "tipping point" for planet Earth. There may be tipping points for Little Sable Point Lighthouse and the like but not Mother Earth. Earth has evolved from a boiling lava covered ball to a lush beautiful haven. Humans are not going to ruin the Earth. The Earth has seen more disasters than we can imagine and it will always heal itself. The only true destruction for our planet will be from a burned out sun, a  nova sun or a cataclysmic asteroid collision. We are now going thru one of the most benign stages in Earth's history. Life is flourishing. That's why humans are thriving. We will one day be an extinct species but the Earth will remain. These minor fluctuations in the climate are normal and are very subdued compared to geological history. Ask a dinosaur how bad things can get. They didn't worry about cars, cows or cancer causing crud. This entire Global climate change scam is a political ploy for control of mankind. It's ambitious and dangerous. All I can say is dig deep for the truth because there are some Globalists that believe the only thing that will save Earth is to eliminate humans. In my opinion the Climate change proponents are being led by fake science into a place more dangerous than we can imagine. The ultimate in human control mechanisms. I was going to post links and videos but both sides have these in spades. All I can say is just use some common sense.

Well said Willy, and using common sense for most on the Liberal thinking side of things, is just simply not going to happen. Skewed science in their favor of thinking can't change for now, nor in the future imho.

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