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Sea level rise over this century will be somewhere between 1 and 4 meters. That's bad for some places like Cape Coral. But most of Florida isn't that low. Sea l
by scythe 5y ago
Sea level rise over this century will be somewhere between 1 and 4 meters. That's bad for some places like Cape Coral. But most of Florida isn't that low. Sea level rise is a very slow, long-term problem. The major reachable consequences of global warming are heat waves and regional declines in precipitation. Also hard-to-predict ecosystem sensitivity questions (e.g. fires in California).
I'm not arguing that we shouldn't be concerned about the ocean, but it's a generational problem, not a personal problem, in the vast majority of cases.
- jdkee 5y agoThe mean height of the state of Florida is 2m above sea level. See https://www.climatecentral.org/news/the-future-is-now-for-sea-level-rise-in-south-florida/ https://www.climatecentral.org/news/the-future-is-now-for-se...
- jjav 5y agoAnd as the article above points out, Florida ground is porous, so even before sea levels rise enough to flood the street level, it is flooding from below which impacts both underground infrastructure and fresh water supplies.
- scythe 5y agoNo, it isn't. It's 100 feet, or 30 meters. See: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/us-states-with-the-lowest-average-elevations.html https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/us-states-with-the-lowes... https://vacationidea.com/florida/highest-elevation-in-florida.html https://vacationidea.com/florida/highest-elevation-in-florid... https://johnenglander.net/florida-is-not-going-underwater-anytime-soon/ https://johnenglander.net/florida-is-not-going-underwater-an... The house I grew up in nearly flooded during Hurricane Frances and the surveyor lists the elevation as eight feet. If Florida's mean elevation was six feet, huge swathes of the state would be underwater every hurricane. Wikipedia lists the average elevation of Miami as 6 feet, which might be where that guy got confused.