Miami, other cities in Florida, USA slowly sinking into rising sea

And that's why voting is important, the world won't wait for us...

Who is going to save us?

I hate to vote for Waffles but that's how we got here.

Funny, I never got a chance to vote against AGW.

You?

I'm too young to have been able to vote for Al Gore unfortunately.

So, who can you vote for to save your future from AGW?

Bernie for president is a chance.

Anything better?

It's Bernie or goodbye sweet world.

They're just trying to make Sen. Inhofe of Kansas look bad. Damn hippies.

I think Inhofe is from Oklahoma.

I'm glad I don't live there any more.

Although I am unsuccessful in resisting the urge to say, "What's the diff?"

EDIT

"People ask me all the time: 'When is it going to happen? When will we start seeing sea level rise?'" says Brian McNoldy, a senior research associate at UM's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. "We've already passed that. It's happening."

To chart that rise, McNoldy recently crunched nearly two decades' worth of data from a tidal monitoring station on Virginia Key. First, he looked at the heights of high, low, and mean sea level measured at the station from 1996, when it was set up, until today.



In research posted last week, he reported that in 2014, the linear trend in all three was more than three inches higher than in 1996. Even more worrying, though, the data suggests the trend is accelerating. By charting just the highest tide each day and breaking that info into five-year chunks, McNoldy found that the high-water mark rose by an average of 0.3 inches per year overall -- but a much higher 1.27 inches per year over the past five years.

"It was surprising," McNoldy says. "I didn't realize that over such a short time, going back to only 1996, you'd see that much of a trend."

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http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2015/02/sea_level_rise_threatens_to_drown_miami_even_faster_than_feared_um_researcher_finds.php


http://www.democraticunderground.com/112781468

Would be better spent relocating some of those businesses.

I admit i'm from a land locked state, county and city, but we have to get real with this situation.

Sounds familiar . . . .

to help stem the tide. To do our part, unselfishly.

Oh well, bacon 'n burgers is good so fuck Miami! Fuck the world! LOL!

the amount of money it will cost in sea walls and pumps to keep our coastal cities operational over the next 100-200 years is beyond imagination. maybe we should just start denying building permits along the coasts and accept that the ocean is going to reclaim them. plot a worst case flood scenario and start planning for where the NEW coastline is going to be and shift cities slowly away from it, expanding only away from the ocean.

of course, this is only the costs to deal with the sea levels. not the myriad of other disasters awaiting us.

It is here.

Wonder what all the South Florida 'pukes think about this.

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Not that it would do much good now but at least we'd have a fighting chance.