Rising seas wash Japanese war dead from Pacific island graves

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7. Remember, a meter is approx. 3 ft.

A rise of only 2 meters/6 feet would seriously impact the Florida coast, where the majority of its population is located. Long before that, property insurance will be impossible to get. The govt. is phasing out FEMA/govt. subsidized flood insurance for flood prone areas already. And they should. Insane to rebuild when one is in a flood plane. Money is better spent helping people relocate.

Miami and other parts of south Florida are the most vulnerable regions in the world to rising sea levels .... The Florida peninsula is a porous plateau of karst limestone sitting atop bedrock , so the salt water rises from underneath and in places like Miami, already comes up into the city streets from the storm sewers at high tides.

“With six feet of sea-level rise, South Florida is toast,” says Tom Gustafson, a former Florida speaker of the House and a climate-change-policy advocate. Even if we cut carbon pollution overnight, it won’t save us. Ohio State glaciologist Jason Box has said he believes we already have 70 feet of sea-level rise baked into the system.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/06/23/2199031/scientist-miami-as-we-know-it-today-is-doomed-its-not-a-question-of-if-its-a-question-of-when/