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The thought is that rising sea levels and/or hurricanes will doom them.
by aetherson 8y ago
The thought is that rising sea levels and/or hurricanes will doom them.
- gridlockd 8y agoWhich is a ridiculous thought. Sea levels are going to rise in the span of hundreds of years. You can move the whole city in that time span. Cities aren't just a collection of buildings. They're like your grandfather's axe.
- WaltPurvis 8y agoYou might be a little quick with your cavalier dismissal. https://www.businessinsider.com/miami-floods-sea-level-rise-solutions-2018-4 https://www.businessinsider.com/miami-floods-sea-level-rise-... Miami is already being impacted by sea level rise. It is not ridiculous, at all, to think that in <30 years areas of Miami will be uninsurable, and therefore unmortgageable, and the water supply for the entire area will be threatened.
- eanzenberg 8y agoHow is Miami being impacted by the 3" of risen sea levels over the past 25 years? ""thermal expansion" of the ocean has contributed about half of the 2.8 inches (7 centimeters) of global mean sea level rise we've seen over the last 25 years, Nerem said. Second, melting land ice flows into the ocean, also increasing sea level across the globe."
- ahnick 8y agohundreds of years? No, by 2050 Miami will be uninhabitable. (https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/united-nations-climate-report-warns-miami-basically-screwed-10806136 https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/united-nations-climate-re...) Rate of sea level rise is accelerating. (https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2680/new-study-finds-sea-level-rise-accelerating/ https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2680/new-study-finds-sea-level...) It is not a linear growth curve. Miami is a city scale game of musical chairs. The question is who will be left holding the land when there are no buyers?
- imtringued 8y agoIn Bangladesh there won't be a place to move the cities to.