{"id":126841,"date":"2019-04-22T10:05:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T07:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww-vb.mine.nu\/w108\/waikiki-flood-concerns-spur-push-for-hawaii-shore-protection\/"},"modified":"2019-04-22T10:05:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T07:05:52","slug":"waikiki-flood-concerns-spur-push-for-hawaii-shore-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/waikiki-flood-concerns-spur-push-for-hawaii-shore-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Waikiki flood concerns spur push for Hawaii shore protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"articleBody\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>\nHawaii&#8217;s iconic Waikiki Beach could soon be underwater as rising sea levels caused by global warming overtake its white sand beaches and bustling city streets.<\/p>\n<p>\nThat&#8217;s alarming for a state where beach tourism is the primary economic driver.<\/p>\n<p>\nSo state lawmakers are trying to pass legislation that would defend against routine coastal flooding that may become the norm in as little as 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>\nA version of one proposed bill that would create a shoreline protection plan for urban Honolulu has passed both chambers of <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/alerts\/Hawaii\" id=\"_ap_link_Hawaii_Hawaii_\" target=\"_blank\">Hawaii<\/a>&#8216;s Legislature.<\/p>\n<p>\nHouse and Senate leaders will convene in the coming weeks to discuss final changes before sending the bill to Gov. David Ige.<\/p>\n<p>\nResearch suggests Hawaii will see a 3-foot (0.9-meter) rise in ocean levels by the end of this century.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Travel\/wireStory\/waikiki-flood-concerns-spur-push-hawaii-shore-protection-62538168\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Hawaii&#8217;s iconic Waikiki Beach could soon be underwater as rising sea levels caused by global warming overtake its white sand beaches and bustling city streets. That&#8217;s alarming for a state where beach tourism is the primary economic driver. So state lawmakers are trying to pass legislation that would defend against routine coastal flooding that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24065,69280,69282,94112,29615,92889,93666,92218,92228,93260,94111,94110,5898,93102,94109,6666,65568],"class_list":["post-126841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tie-world","tag-business","tag-climate","tag-climate-change","tag-coastline","tag-environment","tag-environment-and-nature","tag-environmental-concerns","tag-general-news","tag-government-and-politics","tag-legislature","tag-oceanography","tag-rising-sea-levels","tag-science","tag-state-governments","tag-state-legislature","tag-travel","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}