It's not just Acapulco. Cabo, Mexican Riviera also threatened as climate batters beaches
Cruise industry watching closely as El Niño heralds multiple hurricanes.
CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico (Callaway Climate Insights) — Guillermo Miranda watches over a beach that no longer exists. He shakes his head in frustration. “We used to have a very nice beach until about three months ago when the storms came in.”
He is referring to the series of unprecedented hurricanes and tropical storms that have battered Cabo San Lucas since early July as the El Niño weather pattern intensifies.
“The sand is still there!” he says, pointing to the bay. “You see? The storms just moved our sand and dumped it in the middle of the bay.” He says maybe the sand will come back, but he shrugs his shoulders in doubt. Rising sea levels and increasing severe weather, brought on by climate change, mean it could be years — or centuries — before the sand comes back.
He questions whether or not he will have a job if the sands don’t return.