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yep 2.0 mm per year...that means....150 years to rise 1 foot
1 foot= 304 mm
btw at many times over the millions of years all of florida has been under water
A little more to it than just a quiet sea passively spilling onto land.
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Storms and the rising sea
Even small amounts of sea level rise make rare floods more common by adding to tides and storm surge.
Climate Central has analyzed data and made projections at water level stations in Florida. For a
representative station:
1. Odds of a 100-year flood or worse by 2030, with sea level rise from global warming: 25%
2. Odds without global warming: 10%
3. Bottom line: global warming multiplies the odds by 2.6X
4. Historic local sea level rise rate: 1.1 inches/decade
5. Projected new sea level rise by 2050: 13 inches
Add to this, that the oceans have been steadily rising for the last ten thousand years, and eventually the sea levels will start moving in to submerge those buildings. The only way the oceans will stop rising is if we head back into another flown blown ice-age, but that isn't going to happen.
if past is prologue, then we certainly will head back into another full blown ice age.... 'when' however is the multi-trillion dollar question...
So, please explain WHY nothing is being done to alleviate the problem?
WHEN will they start building the seawalls and dikes to prevent the inevitable flooding?
WHEN will they purchase and install the pumps to remove the inevitable leakage around or through the seawalls and dikes?
WHEN will "they" stop the gnashing of teeth, wailing, and doom and gloom predictions and actually DO something?
As far as I am concerned, the reasons are very simple:
1. "THEY" know any such effort will be useless, because they can't stop what is going to happen.
or
2. "THEY" know that all the doom and gloom predictions are false, so there is no need to build such an expensive protective structure.
I do not know which is correct, or if either is correct. Take your pick, and believe what you will.
There is another reason. THEY know that you and I will pay to rebuild their houses after every Hurricane. Until the tax payers stop bailing out idiots who build in high risk areas, they will never stop.
A little more to it than just a quiet sea passively spilling onto land.
Quote:
Storms and the rising sea
Even small amounts of sea level rise make rare floods more common by adding to tides and storm surge.
Climate Central has analyzed data and made projections at water level stations in Florida. For a
representative station:
1. Odds of a 100-year flood or worse by 2030, with sea level rise from global warming: 25%
2. Odds without global warming: 10%
3. Bottom line: global warming multiplies the odds by 2.6X
4. Historic local sea level rise rate: 1.1 inches/decade
5. Projected new sea level rise by 2050: 13 inches
except there is zero evidence that storms are in fact getting worse.... and there is zero evidence of any exceleration in sea level rise since the end of the Little Ice Age...
And the problem is even worse when global cooling shrinks the oceans. Miami will no longer be on the beach, so billions of dollars invested in resorts, condos and houses will be worthless as the ocean recedes and they are left on wasteland.
That coupled with the global cooling caused hard freezes in the FL citrus growing areas will devastate FL very quickly.
Yes, we should fear climate change.
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