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

[ffr]

1. Two former Republis neighbors of mine live there.

They're deniers too. How ironic.

[ffr]

2. The rise is a problem, but salt water problem with the huge population

is the really worrying problem. That entire land form is porous. Where are 20 million people going to get the fresh water they need to survive?

Expand that globally.

[daleanime]

3. kick, kick, kick.....

You have to love how quickly deniers switched from 'nothing happening' to 'too late to do anything'.

[hollysmom]

4. I find the comments very revealing -

you have the people who mock anything climate - but why? Well, the believers are wondering why there are new construction contracts - why not? the developer is not going to lose anything, they are selling condos, not rentals. The developers will lose nothing, So the people who bought those condos now feel they have to believe there is no danger so they can resell them to new suckers.

Ghostly, I talked one person out of moving to Florida. She was very sweet and did not realize how she would not outlive the flooding, she was in her 20's and never thought about the long range picture. She was being sold a condo on the belief the flooding would not take place until year 3000. A few maps and she was looking for high land in Florida or a less expensive place.