{"id":4014,"date":"2015-08-14T15:22:56","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T19:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=4014"},"modified":"2015-08-14T15:23:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T19:23:24","slug":"changing-climate-could-change-beach-vacations-in-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/08\/changing-climate-could-change-beach-vacations-in-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing climate could alter beach vacations in the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Going to the beach in summer is a familiar and beloved annual event for many families in the Southeast. \u00a0It is also a popular pastime in Europe. \u00a0<em>The Guardian<\/em> published a provocative article this week on how changes in climate could affect beach tourism in Europe as the climate continues to warm, and how in future years visitors might head to the Baltic instead of the Mediterranean for their summer holidays. \u00a0You can read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2015\/aug\/13\/climate-change-tourists-swap-med-for-baltics\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Would increasing temperatures have a similar effect in the United States? \u00a0Certainly as sea levels continue to rise, land use along the coasts will change, and beaches that once were popular might be drowned in a few decades. \u00a0Or they might migrate inland with the rising seas, or coastal communities might try to find ways to buttress their beaches from the invading sea.<\/p>\n<p>Changes in temperature might also make it too hot to enjoy vacations in the Deep South and induce people to look farther north for their summer fun. \u00a0Or the heat inland might drive more people to the beach, where the cooler water would reduce the impacts of the heat. \u00a0This is a huge concern for coastal communities that get a significant portion of their income from beach tourism, and one that does not have any easy answers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4020\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4020\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/daytona-beach.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4020\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/daytona-beach-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Yinan Chen \/ Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/daytona-beach-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/daytona-beach-207x138.jpg 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/daytona-beach.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4020\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daytona Beach. \u00a0Source: Yinan Chen \/ Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going to the beach in summer is a familiar and beloved annual event for many families in the Southeast. \u00a0It is also a popular pastime in Europe. \u00a0The Guardian published a provocative article this week on how changes in climate could affect beach tourism in Europe as the climate continues to warm, and how in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":4020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-coastal","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4014"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4022,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014\/revisions\/4022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}