Sentences with phrase «building seawalls»

Even our science - bashing conman in chief is building seawalls around Trump International Golf Links &... Read More

This includes «hard» measures such as building seawalls and other barriers, along with various measures to protect critical infrastructure.

At the moment, the large lender is helping poorer countries prepare for global warming by building seawalls, conducting crop research, and improving freshwater management.

Traditional defensive approaches — such as building seawalls and levees, or replenishing sand along eroded beaches — can help protect against flooding and damage but may not provide adequate or sustainable long - term protection.

Those arguing that the fossil fuel greenhouse is unstoppable because of hard - wired human short - term greed, scientific illiteracy and failure of technological imagination may have a point, But think about this: Building seawalls, massively air conditioning new habitats inland and dealing with a flood of environmental refugees as the planet warms with take a huge chunk of additional energy in itself.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed its feasibility phase last month, moving to the design phase for the projects, which includes building the seawall from Fort Wadsworth to Oakwood Beach, and a levee and floodwall in Oakwood Beach.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - In getting a green light from two Staten Island community boards, the city cleared a hurdle this week in its quest to acquire 25 East Shore parcels so the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers can build a seawall.

As a (poor) analogy, arguing whether or not it's human - caused feels a bit like planning to develop real estate on a seaside clifftop which some specialists have said might suffer dangerous erosion in the next 70 years unless you put up some seawalls to prevent water action at the base of the cliff - and basing your view whether to build seawalls and other erosion defences upon whether or not there's proof that human activity would be the cause of any future erosion, rather than whether or not erosion is likely and if so how harmful it might be to your interests if nothing is done to reduce it.

Gov. Cuomo rolled out a plan to grant Staten Island $ 151 million in order to build a seawall and a promenade along its southern coast.

After residents built seawalls, the government moved to build a barrier in 2004, followed by Alokoa's most recent initiative.

So the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built a seawall on Galveston Island, and that sucker has gone through every major hurricane since 1900.

Iris Monnereau, a co-author of the study on Micronesia, recalled how a resident on the main island of Kosrae used his own money to jump - start funds for building a seawall.

«You can't build a seawall along the entire Eastern Seaboard,» Jessica Grannis, a climate adaptation specialist at Georgetown Climate Ce

But despite his public skepticism, Trump applied for a permit to build a seawall next to his golf course and hotel in County Clare, Ireland, to prevent erosion, according to a Politico report from earlier this year.

Go out and build a seawall when applicable.

In this case, a city or county might be able to use a fee to pay for climate mitigation efforts, like building a seawall, electrifying a bus fleet, or something else with a clear nexus to climate change.

The second time was when climate change hit The Trump Organization's bottom line: His golf course in Ireland is threatened by coastal erosion, so the company recently applied for a permit to build a seawall to protect the property from «global warming and its effects.»

he Trump International Hotel in Ireland cited «global warming and its effects» as a reason for its permit application to build a seawall beside its golf course at County Clare, Ireland, to prevent coastal erosion.

Time magazine reported on May 23, 2016 that the Trump International Hotel in Ireland cited «global warming and its effects» as a reason for its permit application to build a seawall beside its golf course at County Clare, Ireland, to prevent coastal erosion.

GDP increase does not translate in any obvious way to damage increase; in fact, wealthier countries can better afford to build stronger structures and to protect assets (for example, build seawalls and pass and enforce building regulations).1 A grass hut will be completely destroyed by a hurricane, but a modern steel office building will only be partially damaged; damage does not scale linearly with the value of the asset.

Some organizations have reportedly offered to come in and build seawalls, but these are likely to be temporary solutions and they can have dramatic impacts on the coastline, increasing erosion in places.

«And that if we really want to have meaningful information that, you know, planners can use to build seawalls and things, there's going to have to be a big push to improve our projections of sea level rise using models.»

Not exact matches

But inside the modernist glass - and - concrete chancery building that rises up along Havana's iconic seawall, the Malecón, both the intelligence officials and senior diplomats guessed that the noises were «just another form of harassment» by the Cuban government, one official said.

The City had plans to build a protective seawall around the island but deferred them in the belief that what had always been, would always be.

We have a retirement seawall in place - but we need to enhance it - by giving Canadians the tools they require to fill the savings gap and build the wall higher.

The fact is all three have a role to play and the immediate opportunity for all of us is to get together as partners in building our retirement seawall is the introduction and implementation of PRPPs as the single most important addition and solution to Canada's retirement savings shortfall.

The current shift of the Baby Boomer bulge from work to retirement presents a huge challenge to the world's policy markers and the world needs to build its own financial seawall - a retirement seawall — to manage this issue.

In Corpus Christi, the major city closest to the storm's center, wind whipped palm trees and stinging sheets of horizontal rain slapped against hotels and office buildings along the seawall as the storm made landfall.

It will be cheaper, they tell us, to adjust to increased storm damage, build more dikes and seawalls, relocate people and pay the costs of increased air - conditioning than it would be to take steps to slow global warming.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, heading up the project for the buried seawall, which includes building a levee and floodwall in Oakwood Beach, recently entered the design phase which is expected to take one year.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning to build a buried seawall from Fort Wadsworth to Oakwood Beach, as well as a levee and floodwall in Oakwood Beach to protect Staten Island from future Hurricane Sandy - like storms.

State Sen. Tony Avella (l.) stands with Al Risi on the seawall he built behind his waterfront property.

Building a bulkhead or seawall along one or a few coastal properties may protect homes from damaging storm waves for a few years, but could end up doing more harm than good.

Against the Sea «Twice during the thirteen years since it was built has the great concrete wall along the waterfront of Galveston withstood the furious onslaughts of a raging sea lashed by a hurricane, and in each case the seawall has stood perfectly.

The study, published in Environmental Science and Policy, assesses reports and peer - reviewed studies on the strengths and weaknesses of using built infrastructure, such as seawalls or dikes, natural infrastructure, or approaches which combine both.

The underestimate of the fault proved deadly, as Japanese seawalls were built under the assumption that extra-large quakes wouldn't produce any extra-large tsunamis.

Originally designated as an area for children to swim, a seawall was built making it an ideal place not just for children, but also for harbor seals that now inhabit the cove.

We are currently in the process of redoing the seawall on the marina side on all the lots and will build a board walk along the seawall on all the lots.

The seawall was built in 2008 and is a great place to enjoy the sunset.

The land is protected from the ocean by a solidly built natural stone seawall.

-- in Asia coastlines are being built out with seawalls and fill.

ahh... didn't Louisiana plan to build an interlocking seawall to protect New Orleans from a hurricane's potential high seas only to have the construction blocked by the Sierra Club because those enviro - fools wanted to save some sea lettuce?

But are we going to build 8,000 miles of seawall along the Gulf and East Coasts?

Because of that possible impact on neighbors, the California Coastal Commission now requires a permitting process before any seawall can be built.

While the fee approach is restrictive, it would be much better to use a carbon fee than a sales tax (or similar mechanism) to raise money for something we already need (like the seawall Seattle is building).

They jacked up the buildings and deposited dredged sand beneath the raised structures and built a large seawall for further protection.They could attempt the same in New Orleans to raise some of the lower sections of the city above sea level.

A seawall was built on the western portion of the site to protect the shoreline and beach from erosion, and this forms the edge of a waterfront park.

Spectacular and spacious two bedroom home in the heart of Granville Island, just steps to the seawall, in a trouble - free concrete building.

The new stone wall with steps was built to match the existing seawall.