South Florida and Sea Level Rise: A Slow Motion Catastrophe

[greenman3610]

Most of us think of sea level rise in terms of the Sci-Fi images of huge waves rolling into the city.
The plucky protagonists survive, others don't, but they're just nameless extras.
It's a relatively tidy process - no sticky legal, moral,
scientific, economic or political issues to resolve. And it's all over in an afternoon.

In the real world, we won't be getting off that easy. Case in point: South Florida.

I think this is worth watching, and sharing, as a reality check.

More here
http://climatecrocks.com/2014/11/12/new-video-south-florida-and-sea-level-rise-a-slow-motion-catastrophe/

[lonestarnot]

1. State employees can't use the words climate change. Is that fucking ridiculous or what?

State mandating word usage.

[vkkv]

9. Republicans taking away our freedoms... Freedom of speech for one.

Rick Scott got re-elected, yay!

[mountain grammy]

2. Well, by all means, let's elect Repbulicans

because denying this is happening makes us feel better..
Don't Republicans always make us feel better...

[safeinOhio]

3. That big garbage mound in Fort Lauderdale

will become the Island of Florida. Their best best is to haul in more garbage.

[ffr]

4. Millennials Are Flocking To Miami, Where They Might All Drown Soon

Across the country, young people are eschewing suburban living for urban hubs, where there is easy access to just about every amenity imaginable. Miami exemplifies the trend. The city has seen doubled its population since the year 2000, and much of that growth is among young people. In the city's downtown, almost half of all residents are between 25 and 44.

Downtown Miami's growth can be traced back to the last housing boom, when developers built 23,000 luxury condos in the area. When the crash hit hardest five years ago, 38% of those units were vacant. Now that the economy is rebounding, those units are quickly getting filled—and over 23,000 new condo units are already in the construction pipeline. "The availability of high-end affordable housing along with an urban lifestyle in a tropical setting created the perfect storm driving thousands of young residents into our urban core, really for the first time in history.


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Even though flooding in East Coast cities will become more frequent in the coming decades, Miami is indeed uniquely vulnerable; as the Guardian points out, there are 4.2 million U.S. residents living at an elevation of four feet or less, and 2.4 million of them are in south Florida. - Fastcoexist.com

More video on infrastructure solutions and dilemmas
http://www.local10.com/news/could-finding-sea-level-rise-solutions-create-jobs/24385088

Moving fresh water pumps inland in an attempt to find water that doesn't have sea water.

Conclusion: unsustainable

[flamingdem]

5. More like foreign money, lots of it dirty, from South America

some from Europe. The Millenials from the US can't afford those condo tower units.

[yallerdawg]

6. Republicans not only deny climate change...

their Republican policies will contribute to the escalation of climate change.

They have to deny climate change.

They want the dirty sand oil from Canada down the Keystone pipeline. They want to deregulate the fossil-fuel industries to free up the markets and job growth. They want to end the EPA and clean air and water requirements. They don't want to invest in alternative energy infrastructure. They want to militarily occupy the Middle East to assure oil spigot stays on.

If climate change was real, a scientific fact leading to the end of the world as we know it, then these Republican policies in the face of real climate change would be CRAZY/INSANE.

Republican logic as follows: These policies are real, therefore climate change caused by these policies cannot be real. After all, the Republicans reassure themselves, "We are not crazy."

[progressoid]

7. Rec!

[greiner3]

8. Peter Sinclair and his videos are a National Treasure;

Or will be when his predictions are proven to be reality.

I can't



Enough.

[Old Nick]

10. I see this as a hit TV show about near-future plumbers dealing with the rising waters

Miami Vise

[blkmusclmachine]

11. The GOP has a Death Wish on the 99%. And the DEMS, well, who knows???

[Duppers]

12. big R

Kick