Sea Level Rise Threatens to Drown Miami Even Faster Than Feared

[marmar]

Living in Miami in 2015 and harboring any doubts about sea level rise is roughly equivalent to being a volcano truther in Pompeii circa 79 AD. The catastrophe is happening. The only question is just how quickly climate change will sink parts of South Florida.

The answer, according to new work by a University of Miami researcher: even more quickly than we thought.

"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. .........................(more)

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

[1StrongBlackMan]

1. Mrs. 1SBM has been in Miami ...

for the past week. She has indicated that she would not mind living there.

I've been to Miami a bunch of times and generally like it. I love it's diversity of cultures and I love beaches; but, my response to my wife was, "Nope ... Miami's going to be underwater in our life time. I'd prefer not to relocate, just to be forced to relocate."

I, also, told her ... "Just think of BabyGirl 1SBM ... It's likely that our Arizona property will be beach front property in her lifetime."

[geomon666]

2. That why I support splitting the state in two.

We're being held hostage by the knuckledraggers up north and their sycophants down here.

[world wide wally]

3. Sea level rising is more real than anything being said at CPAC this week.

We are experiencing it first hand and it doesn't matter what anybody thinks.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. "volcano truther in Pompeii "

lol. Can you imagine the guy who dared to warn of disaster, back then?
One of these days they will dig him up, frozen in time, clutching his tablet which says "I told you so".