So I hear fears about global warming are exaggerated. Let's ask Florida about that!

[LJ_Reloaded]

http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article210451219.html

No graver threat faces the future of South Florida than the accelerating pace of sea-level rise. In the past century, the sea has risen 9 inches in Key West. In the past 23 years, it’s risen 3 inches. By 2060, it’s predicted to rise another 2 feet, with no sign of slowing down.

Think about that. Water levels could easily be 2 feet higher in 40 years. And scientists say that’s a conservative estimate. Because of melting ice sheets and how oceans circulate, there’s a chance South Florida’s sea level could be 3 feet higher by 2060 and as much as 8 feet by 2100, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

It’s not just a matter of how much land we’re going to lose, though the barrier islands and low-lying communities will be largely uninhabitable once the ocean rises by 3 feet. It’s a matter of what can be saved. And elsewhere, how we’re going to manage the retreat.

What was that again about global warming being "less severe than previously said"?

 

[Hypoxia]

I'll pay some heed to climate-change deniers who live in trailers on the Florida coast within three feet of mean high tide level. They have the rusty cojones to live their beliefs. Ignore the fakers, liars, and hypocrites living out of storm or tsunami zones.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

Won't mean shit when they're forced to evacuate those areas as the tide rises permanently

 

[BotanyBoy]

Sucks for idiots who built their lives on the coast LOL

 

[Taint_mAnn]

Global warming.

It's called ocean front property relocation. Every 20 years the neighbor behind you gets the view.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

Sucks for idiots who built their lives on the coast LOL

It sucks for you, too, because no matter where you say you live, guess what, a lot of people dislocated from coastlines will come move in next to you, bringing their city ways to your doorstep. And when the sea levels rise too far, there won't be a place in hell you can move to get away from them.

There will be absolutely no escape unless you plan on moving to Mars.

And wait, there's more ways this will suck for you

 

[BotanyBoy]

It sucks for you, too, because no matter where you say you live, guess what, a lot of people dislocated from coastlines will come move in next to you, bringing their city ways to your doorstep. And when the sea levels rise too far, there won't be a place in hell you can move to get away from them.

There will be absolutely no escape unless you plan on moving to Mars.

And wait, there's more ways this will suck for you

Nah...they won't move up here, they will back a few miles off the coastlines and at most go for the central valley. Sacramento will be the new NorCal mecca worst case.

Otherwise this won't matter to most of California beyond the cries for increased taxes to do "something" about it of course. LOL

Besides, city folks aren't moving up into the mountains, they'd starve to death out here.

 

[FGB]

(Sigh)

Been going on for a long time and isn't stopping anytime soon.

It ranges up and down several hundred feet depending on what is going on.

Always has.

News flash! YOU cannot stop it!

I can only wonder what the cry would be if the ocean shore water level was dropping!

 

[Hypoxia]

"Everybody calls me Cleopatra
Because I am de-queen of de-nial."

Keep telling yourself nothing's happening. Now tell militaries and insurers that. Go on.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

Nah...they won't move up here, they will back a few miles off the coastlines and at most go for the central valley. Sacramento will be the new NorCal mecca worst case.

Otherwise this won't matter to most of California beyond the cries for increased taxes to do "something" about it of course. LOL

Besides, city folks aren't moving up into the mountains, they'd starve to death out here.

Except that's not far enough inland, so guess what, yeah you have company coming. And food shortages once the inland farms get inundated with salt water. There's not a mountain high enough or remote enough where you'll escape the consequences of that. Your imaginary farm won't escape that.

It's going to be even more fun for low-lying areas like Florida. Millions of Republicans forced out of their homes, LOL.

 

[jaF0]

Remember that FL is a sandbar in a swamp. It floods when three people piss at the same time.

When sea levels rise to about what is currently 250 AMSL, I'll get worried. At 350 our roads are flooded like this past spring.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Except that's not far enough inland,

Dumbass who's never been to northern California LOL we aren't a sandbar like FL.

http://humboldtredwoods.org/sites/humboldtredwoods.org/files/View%20north%20from%20Needle%20Rock.JPG

so guess what, yeah you have company coming.

There isn't anything here but a view to attract anyone, so nah...ain't happening.

And food shortages once the inland farms get inundated with salt water.

Will be centuries after I'm gone even if the sea rise accelerates at the rates you say. So it won't be my problem.

There's not a mountain high enough or remote enough where you'll escape the consequences of that. Your imaginary farm won't escape that.

LOL you're an idiot. Yea the consequences of my product becoming suddenly the most valuable commodity on the planet, oh noez!!

It's going to be even more fun for low-lying areas like Florida. Millions of Republicans forced out of their homes, LOL.

That's Florida's problem.