Climate Change and Surfing

[BoMan]

How will rising sea levels and changing weather patterns affect surfing in the future?


Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rising-sea-levels-will-hit-california-harder-than-other-places/

[oldmansurfer]

Those pictures don't show the effects of global warming but some other phenomena such as high surf or tides. We will all be dead before this becomes an issue (the turn of the century) if it goes as predicted.

[waikikikichan]

Man’s interference with nature ..... or more so “stupid” man’s. “They” planned to take away the little rock and concrete groins on Waikiki beach, because kids would get hurt on them and they “looked bad”. All the beach boys said don’t do it cause it will affect the shoreline. “They” did it anyways, and now the beach has eroded away. Sand can’t follow its normal circular route, so it filled in over the reef. Bad for the reef and fish, but also the negative effect of tourist walking out to the break and getting runned over by surfboards.

[oldmansurfer]

Man has been altering Waikiki beach to make it more lucrative for tourism for a long time. Should they stop, the beach may just go away as beaches do when humans don't interfere and then what would all the tourists do?

[BoMan]

If you surf a SoCal beach break that relies on sand bars, your playground may disappear.

According to the US Geological Survey 67 percent of Southern California’s beaches are at risk of disappearing completely by 2100. Think about that! Nearly three quarters of Southern California’s iconic beaches – important economic drivers, crucial ecological habitat, cherished public recreational resources – may be gone, taking many beloved waves with them.

https://www.usgs.gov/news/disappearing-beaches-modeling-shoreline-change-southern-california

[oldmansurfer]

Things will change but more predictable than what will happen to the surf will be shoreline changes.