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Coastal American cities that never used to be flooded face staggering new risks as seas rise.
Salinization of the Mekong Delta is threatening the rice harvest and pushing a move toward a new crop: shrimp.
Can Scientific Advice on Coastal Risk Reduction Compete with ‘We Will Not Retreat’ Politics?
From the NY Times Dot Earth blog
"Storms are getting more powerful, and the current scientific thinking is that's going to continue.... We are not coordinated at different levels of government, and time is running out."
See the full infographic at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Miami is drowning while the powers that be look away
Low-lying south Florida, at the front line of climate change in the US, will be swallowed as sea levels rise. Astonishingly, the population is growing, house prices are rising and building goes on. The problem is the city is run by climate change deniers
Eve Mosher got folks in Miami to draw the line -- literally -- on predicted sea level rise.
The Ghost of Sea-Level Rise Future? October's King Tide had pedestrians wading through knee-deep water in Miami Beach, says public radio station WLRN.
See their full story.
Scientists disagree over whether climate change is altering hurricanes. It is impossible, when looking at one storm, to know whether global warming had an impact, but researchers see a trend.
Josh Kurz imagines this ad for a future condo complex off the Louisiana coast.
Nearly 20 percent of Miami-Dade County faces inundation with just one foot of sea-level rise, an increase we could see by 2050.
-Erika Spanger-Siegfried on "The Equation" blog at the Union of Concerned Scientists
Flood waters have forced Russell Gelvin to rebuild his house in Louisiana. Twice. The Mississippi Delta is sinking at the same time the ocean is rising. In Louisiana, that puts a lot of petrochemical plants at risk. Reporter Reid Frazier went to Louisiana for BURN.
Alex Chadwick travels to South Florida to talk about sea levels rising. One scientist tells him that Miami, as we know it, will not exist by 2100.
You can hear the entire hour on Rising Seas, or other segments from the show, on SoundCloud.
If you truly believe in global warming, you’re going to have an issue being in real estate in South Florida.
-William Hardin, professor of real estate at Florida International University, in the Miami Herald
Josh Kurz imagines a blockbuster film from the next century. Have a look at his poster for "Simone," named after the massive hurricane in 2050 that wipes out half of Miami.
Rising seas and insurance
Sea level is changing and it is going to keep changing regardless of who or what is causing it ... and we're going to have to deal with it.
William Sweet, an oceanographer with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, in a 10/30/13 NPR story about the effects of Hurricane Sandy on insurance rates.
Gretel Ehrlich writes:
Twenty years after my first visit to Greenland, I returned to Greenland with my partner, Neal Conan, who recorded and narrated the sounds of the Jacobshavn Glacier melting and calving, and to contemplate the demise of ice which is the natural air conditioner of the world.
The following are some of my notes from this adventure.