South Florida and Sea Level Rise

[Quixote1818]

[tonyt53]

1. When ya have to have pumps to stop the sea from pushing the river backwards,

something is terribly wrong. In thirty years south FL won't resemble what it does today.

[Quixote1818]

3. Watching this I really get the sense the local Governments are trying to play this down

because they know the bottom is about to fall out of the real-estate market. When the Governor won't let people even say climate change it shows they are completely freaked out at what is happening.

[msongs]

2. all things must pass. they better be hoping for massive amounts of rain soon...

rain fills the fresh water table and pushes back against salt water invasion

[ErikJ]

4. Miami is going to be sleeping with the fishies.

[NV Whino]

5. Florida Man has met his match in Mother Nature.

[Cassiopeia]

8. It took the entire planet to make this happen.

Florida will suffer the first major impacts in the US though.

[Cordy]

9. No, not likely

Here in Central Valley, CA., because of the ongoing droughts, we have had low water tables and salt water intrusion for 10-12 years now. Instead of building locks on the Delta, and desalination units on the central coast lines, my good friend Gov. Brown is dead set on his bullet train. We need to flood the valley and get our aquifers replenished to re-establish water well levels to the 50's. The ground is literally sinking as it drys up!

We have some real unhealthy issues going here. Farmers have been forced to abandoned fields for lack of irrigation, and the crops left get limited amounts of water. Residents are forced into drought conditions every year,asked to cut back, and then they are told because you are using less water our budgets are short, so we have to raise your water rates. Tons of water are shipped out of state yearly, either in the produce we grow, or bottled water. Not to mention wasting most of the snow melt that is just pouring out into the ocean because we do not have locks to keep in the valley.

Oh, well, I have run on long enough.

[Cassiopeia]

10. Yeah, the crops that are grown in CA are insane.

Bottling water and shipping it out is nuts as well.

I feel your pain. Here in FL it is against the law to mention climate change. They're also trying to eliminate using solar at large scales because we don't have enough sun..... in the sunshine state.

My reply was mostly about the snide remark about FL man. Yeah, we'll suffer, but we didn't do this to ourselves alone. We had a lot of help from the entire planet creating this problem.

[JDPriestly]

12. We have to have both the water management and the train.

Because on of the causes of climate change is the fact that Californians burn a lot of gas and oil driving in their cars -- alone -- just one person in the car -- and long distances -- slowly because there are so many trucks and cars on the road.

Yesterday, my husband and I drove South from Los Angeles on the I-5. We were in the carpool lane and from that vantage point I looked across at the many, many cars (several traffic jams on a Saturday) moving along, and almost all of them had only one person, the driver, in them.

So the three problems are linked: burning carbon in our cars and homes and power plants, rising sea levels and drought.

It isn't necessarily causation that is easy to pinpoint, but the many, many cars carrying only one person and the water problems are linked.

We have to deal with both problems.

[SheilaT]

6. At the risk of seeming concerned with something trivial,

am I right in thinking that almost all beaches will disappear as the sea level rises?

How long does it take to produce a nice beach, anyway?

[elleng]

7. Glad my folks aren't there any longer,

tho not glad they're deceased. A fair # of high school classmates and other friends are there. Good LUCK!

[blackspade]

11. This will be ignored by the establishment.