Reality check. As long as the world keeps warming, ice will keep melting and the oceans will continue rising. The question is not how high, but how fast. Eventually, in millennia or maybe only centuries, the rise will top 200 ft.(I’ll be long gone. I would have loved to have seen it). For the last four years this nation has ignored climate change and for the last eight years this state has ignored it. Why the sudden epiphany?
Ice exists at any temperature below 32°F (0°C) down to absolute zero. The Antarctic ice cap is the size of the USA and Mexico combined and over a mile thick. Is the internal temperature of that ice rising toward the melt point?
As the seas rise, water will follow rivers, canals and culverts inland. At first flooding will occur at king tides, then daily at every higher high tide, then twice a day at both high tides then constantly, then homes will flood ane eventually the high rises along the beach will become breakwaters because we will not remove them (too expensive).
Next on the agenda, Florida outlaws the sunset-no more sunsets, it’s hurting tourism! Seriously, you can just pass a law to protect some coastline from rising (or falling) ocean waters? I had no idea the FL legislature was so powerful.
Once again, the earth gets warmer, the earth gets colder. it always has and always will until the end of the planet. It warmed and cooled (dramatically) before humans were here and will continue long after mankind is extinguished from the Earth.
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On a more serious note, what’s the plan? Much of the state is just a matter of feet above sea level. Netherland style dykes along the oceanfront, inland levees, massive pumping stations for widespread sunny day flooding events, desalination plants to counter the contamination of traditional ground water supplies?
At least there will be some massive public-sector infrastructure spending and jobs creation involved, so maybe it will be spun as a political victory for the politicians involved.
Reality check. As long as the world keeps warming, ice will keep melting and the oceans will continue rising. The question is not how high, but how fast. Eventually, in millennia or maybe only centuries, the rise will top 200 ft.(I’ll be long gone. I would have loved to have seen it). For the last four years this nation has ignored climate change and for the last eight years this state has ignored it. Why the sudden epiphany?
Ice exists at any temperature below 32°F (0°C) down to absolute zero. The Antarctic ice cap is the size of the USA and Mexico combined and over a mile thick. Is the internal temperature of that ice rising toward the melt point?
As the seas rise, water will follow rivers, canals and culverts inland. At first flooding will occur at king tides, then daily at every higher high tide, then twice a day at both high tides then constantly, then homes will flood ane eventually the high rises along the beach will become breakwaters because we will not remove them (too expensive).
Good luck to my grandchildren.
Next on the agenda, Florida outlaws the sunset-no more sunsets, it’s hurting tourism! Seriously, you can just pass a law to protect some coastline from rising (or falling) ocean waters? I had no idea the FL legislature was so powerful.
Once again, the earth gets warmer, the earth gets colder. it always has and always will until the end of the planet. It warmed and cooled (dramatically) before humans were here and will continue long after mankind is extinguished from the Earth.
Dear Florida,
Science welcomes you.
Sincerely,
Oceanography, Climatology, et. al.
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On a more serious note, what’s the plan? Much of the state is just a matter of feet above sea level. Netherland style dykes along the oceanfront, inland levees, massive pumping stations for widespread sunny day flooding events, desalination plants to counter the contamination of traditional ground water supplies?
At least there will be some massive public-sector infrastructure spending and jobs creation involved, so maybe it will be spun as a political victory for the politicians involved.