Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskThe threat Miami faces from rising sea-level is well-known. The seas off South Florida have risen by almost a foot in a century, more than the global average. Parts of Miami are close to sea-level, so prone to flooding at high tide. As the ice sheets melt, another couple of feet of sea-level rise is expected by 2060; perhaps six by 2100. Yet this calamity is only half the city’s problem.
Miami has no answer to this inundation from without and within. A seawall, analogous to the Netherlands’ dykes, could make groundwater flooding worse, by stopping it draining away. The best course is a medley of partial fixes. These would include heavy investment in practical solutions, such as extending the sewer system; long-term planning for higher sea-levels, including a rethinking of building codes and the habitability of parts of Miami; and aggressive steps to mitigate global emissions.
Starting with the obvious, the Republicans, who have run Florida since 1999, are an impediment to cutting emissions. The previous governor, Rick Scott, was a climate-change denier. The current one, Ron DeSantis, is better on local environmental problems, yet while recently releasing a sea-level plan he dismissed “things like global warming” as a “pretext to do a bunch of left-wing things”.
He might have had Miami’s response to its watery future in mind. Drive around it with an informed guide and illustrations of administrative chaos and make-and-mend are everywhere. A state-run causeway across Biscayne Bay is being raised in expectation of 0.7 feet of sea-level rise; a county one in expectation of six feet. A mile-long roadway parallel to the bay marks the route of a $4.6bn seawall proposed by the Army Corps of Engineers.
Well, this is the highlight of Republicanism manifested with DeSantis and the Republican learership of Florida! Please don't mix it up with what some other states are taking a different tact toward the same issue! It's the 'do nothing' Republicanism and denial, denial, denial!
A few days ago, the authorities showed interest in hiring a professional expert in geometry, to find out if the planet Earth loses fluids to space, and also to find out if there is a possibility that the Earth will become a desert.
All the Democrats fault. Obviously. Your clients could have fixed things properly. Your decline continues.
stop with the sea rise nonsense
Rising sea levels are inevitable, doesn't mean it's the American taxpayers' problem.
What rising sea levels? Miami and South Florida have subsurface water problems…
Folks, pay no attention to this climate alarmist. Everything is going as it has for centuries, except the pollution. The pollution and soiling our oceans needs to stop.
In the next 15 years, Florida will experience a record of underwater loans from cars to homes.
Remember when Al Gore said Fl would be underwater by know. This was a storm surge, not rising sea levels
climate change is state local issue the republicans will fix it not Radicle dems
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Because half of the people in America's governing system have been bought and paid for by corporations who make more money if they don't have to stop CAUSING climate change. It's pretty simple.
Climate induced They're were no hurricanes before humans impacted the air? What would this hurricane cost 100 years ago? Cost is not a measure of a hurricane.
1923 worst hurricane in recorded history. More than 2000 people died. The keyword is recorded history
Because half the voting population doesn't want future consequences to come in the way of making a buck, people with power can escape these consequences and they have convinced the dumb segment that climate change is a hoax.
Hurricanes have been happening since Pangea broke apart. Some are horrible some are not. Ease up on the climate crap.
People keep wanting to live on low land coastal areas and floodplains. Maybe these areas should be rezoned..
The next step for human control is to have a religion, so the Antichrist can unite everybody, and The Climate Change is the perfect one. Like the Tower of Babel let’s hold hands together to save the world. It’s a trap!!
Weather always changing This does not mean human activity is cause; nor has any chance to affect it in the future 'Climate' models are manipulated by false-scientists seeking funding & opposition is silenced. Manipulations are amplified by biased-media seeking sensation.
Check out how many Congressmen and former presidents own beachfront property and then get back to me.
They have been calling for floods In Ten years since the 1950’s. Now we have the coldest winter in years. CO2 makes up less than 1 % of the atmosphere. This is a power play. Look what they did to Venezuela. Take the energy away destroy the economy.
It's Miami...it floods...always has. This picture means nothing.
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So Miami will be fine then? Got it
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Our Great Lakes show that the climate can change so drastically, ON IT'S OWN, that it can form glaciers and melt glaciers naturally.
And DeSantis is dealing with this how?