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Those feeling complacent about living on a hill above the rising sea need to think again. Your cozy ocean-view home will become the airport or the naval base or the sewage disposal plant. The relocated interstate will go through your backyard. Schools, hospitals, factories -- all will be moving up hill.
This has been "predicted" since the 1920's with no significant changes since, lol. Nothing new here.
There are maps of the Florida coast from the early 1500s. By the time of statehood in 1845, there are countless of highly detailed maps of the entire state, showing the full coastline with barrier islands, etc. I would link but I'm not sure of the rules , but you can find these with a quick google search on the University of Miami website. The coastline in 2021 looks exactly the same as it did centuries ago before all the carbon was released. Not saying this won't happen eventually, but it's so far into the future it's not really worth caring about. Hurricanes are a much more immediate threat.
I actually live at ground zero (on Biscayne Bay), and have lived here for 19 years. In those 19 years, most of the seawalls in the neighborhood have been raised, as have the streets and sidewalks. When you look at the seawalls, you can often notice where the initial ones were, and where the subsequent increased heights of them happened. From the ones by me, they've been raised twice since initially built around a hundred years ago, and the initial ones are way below sea level. The ones that were in place when I moved here often flooded at high tides and especially during King Tides. The new ones are more than 3 feet higher than the ones that they replaced.
I actually live at ground zero (on Biscayne Bay), and have lived here for 19 years. In those 19 years, most of the seawalls in the neighborhood have been raised, as have the streets and sidewalks. When you look at the seawalls, you can often notice where the initial ones were, and where the subsequent increased heights of them happened. From the ones by me, they've been raised twice since initially built around a hundred years ago, and the initial ones are way below sea level. The ones that were in place when I moved here often flooded at high tides and especially during King Tides. The new ones are more than 3 feet higher than the ones that they replaced.
Interesting, do you have any pics or streetview links where I can see this? Is this on the west shore of Miami Beach? I live a few miles inland so I wouldn't notice gradual changes like that. And perhaps I am underestimating how much human-led mitigation efforts are responsible for the Miami barrier islands maintaining the same borders.
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