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You might be a little quick with your cavalier dismissal. https://www.businessinsider.com/miami-floods-sea-level-rise-solutions-2018-4 https://www.businessinsi
by WaltPurvis 8y ago
You 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."