Sea levels are starting to rise faster. Here’s how much South Florida is expecting

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So far, scientists have found that we’re trending toward the high end of those predictions. ... “Presently, sea level is tracking in the intermediate-high to high, the two fastest,” said Randall Parkinson, a coastal geologist with Florida International University. “The other three scenarios, you might not even think about because we’re already rising faster than that.”
Gonna be real funny when that 6 ft by 2100 drops to 2050 and most of Florida become the climate migrants nobody wants.
- My in-laws just bought a house near the coast in Southeast Florida. I don't know what they're thinking. Maybe they're too old and stuck in their ways to believe that this will actually impact them? I don't know, but I imagine it won't be long before they can't insure that house anymore.
- Yea real funny. I hope when it’s coming for you somebody a little further north takes the same joy in your impending doom.
  
  I believe the above poster was merely pointing out the irony of the situation, not saying that it's actually humorous. Florida's politics tend to villify refugees, while the residents themselves may soon become refugees fleeing to other states due to climate change.
  
  Sorry the conservative bigots who deny climate change and pretend the water isn't rising are going to get wet.
  There. That's my sympathetic statement for them. But, no amount of warnings or even pleading with them can ever cause conservatives to do the right thing. The more we implore them to recognize the science, the more likely they are to drown just to upset us.
  I, for one, support a conservative's right to drown exactly as they insist. We should be supporting their decisions for once. Let them face the tides bravely. We should be cheering them on as they sink beneath the waves. 👏 Good job, y'all! Good job! 👏
  As for the innocent non-conservatives, we should be rescuing them and getting them to normal states just to get them away from the conservatives. Leave the rest behind.
  
  It's a common figure of speech. It doesn't mean actually funny.
it’s not an obstacle, it’s an opportunity! – Florida has a long and prestigious tradition of selling waterfront property …
- Somehow I feel that capitalism won’t solve the problems that capitalism created.
The same kind of flooding that hit Brazil I expect to hit south Florida within the next year.
Florida does have a rigorous pumping systems due to hurricanes. So we will be able to pump the extra water out.... eventually. That being said, flooding will still persist for days at a time.
Though I am sure our elected officials won't just pretend that climate change doesn't exist..... and will put effort into upgrading that pumping infrastructure....
- is the pumping system up to the same standards as Texas’ electric grid?
- you guys are just as fucked as them.
  I won't disagree with you on that.
  We do have tools to fight flooding when it comes. The big problems will be the ecology and industries that fall apart when streets are flooded.
  I am hopeful for a scenario where the wildlife grows/adapts around the flooding. But the chemicals that get mixed in with the flooding. That will be the hard part.
- Individual storms are random enough that I'm very hesitant to make that kind of short-term statement.
RIP to any freshwater animals living in florida.
Takeaways:
buy land in ATL.
Political implications interesting. Since the poors will be the Floridians withiut options, it makes sense they'd go to GA...normally poors would be bluish voters but in FL, fuckssake who knows. Rich FL will just fly back to their homes in AZ, TX, NY, etc.
How high's the water, Mama?

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