Scientists warn South Florida coastal
cities will be affected by sea level rise
CBS News Miami,
by
Ashley Dyer
Original Article
Posted By: Northcross,
9/17/2022 9:17:41 AM
Sea level rise is increasing at a dramatic rate. Scientists at the University of Miami warn that if we don't act soon, coastal cities and towns will slowly diminish.
Scientists say a few decades from now, downtown Miami will be underwater.
The tide is coming in and eventually it's not going to go back out," says Dr. Harold Wanless, a Geologist and Professor of Geography and Sustainable Development at University of Miami. So what does that mean for us? According to Dr. Wanelss's research, by the year 2060, nearly 60% of Miami-Dade county will be underwater.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
NorthStar 9/17/2022 9:20:33 AM (No. 1279937)
But Not President Obamas two houses... they will be just fine
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Phantomll 9/17/2022 9:22:14 AM (No. 1279939)
According to AlGore, I should be sitting under water right now.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
nhveritas 9/17/2022 9:28:01 AM (No. 1279943)
This was already guaranteed to happen multiple times during the last 30 years. Fake news.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
valinva 9/17/2022 9:30:31 AM (No. 1279944)
If every country achieved its stated ambitious electric-vehicle targets by 2030, the world would save 231 million tons of CO2 emissions. Plugging these savings into the standard United Nations Climate Panel model, that comes to a reduction of 0.0002 degree Fahrenheit by the end of the century.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Califedup 9/17/2022 9:35:39 AM (No. 1279947)
"Scientists" The only thing really rising is the level of propaganda lies, stupidity, and hypocrisy by these University Climate Change fanatics.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Californian 9/17/2022 9:36:49 AM (No. 1279949)
Remember, NYC has already been under water for about 20 years.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
paral04 9/17/2022 9:43:02 AM (No. 1279954)
Well, that won't be the first time Florida was under water. Florida and south Georgia were many centuries ago. The earth is constantly changing and walking to work instead of driving won't change anything but it could keep you healthier if you aren't hit by a truck or something.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
JimBob 9/17/2022 9:43:23 AM (No. 1279955)
The last time I checked, the sea level, as measured by the tide gages positioned at many sites along the coasts, has been rising at the steady rate of 2mm a year for many years. No change in the rate of rise since the records began.
At 25.4 mm/inch, that's an inch every 12 years or so.
Plenty of time to plan accordingly.
As several previous posters have noted, AlGore predicted that Noo Yawk would be under water in something like 10 years..... 30 years ago.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
BarryNo 9/17/2022 9:47:33 AM (No. 1279959)
This Dr. Wanless needs to sue to get his money back. He obviously knows nothing of Florida. Florida is a huge SANDBAR shaped by the deposits of rivers draining down from the States just north of it. Deposits of those Rivers created the land known as Florida, which was further shaped by the Oceanic currents of the Gulf of Mexico, and the coastal currents which draw warm water north along the Eastern Coast.
There are many threats to Florida - none of which stem from the "rise of the oceans". Get real. It's more like the erosion by the Casinos and tourist industries, as they steal fill from other parts of Florida to create land where there was swamp, before. While I agree Florida's problems are man-made, they have nothing to do with climate.
It really disturbs me when some hackneyed yapping expert waves his credentials around and cries "the Sky is falling!..."
Chicken Little always rubbed me the wrong way.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
PChristopher 9/17/2022 9:47:49 AM (No. 1279960)
The word 'Scientist' should be a punchline at this point.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 9/17/2022 9:49:15 AM (No. 1279962)
Yet the rest of the nation is either in severe drought or epic flooding.
For those without a degree in Physics, the leftist's very much feared, "greenhouse gas" induced, 0.5 degree increase in polar temperature from -35 to -35.5 degF will NOT cause thawing of ice. It is therefore safe to go outside. /s
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 9/17/2022 9:49:43 AM (No. 1279963)
Once the solar minimum kicks in, on roughly the same time frame, sea level will go down.
You know, land bridge to Siberia, to London, etc.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Farmwife1 9/17/2022 10:00:55 AM (No. 1279975)
Wasn't this supposed to happen 40 years ago?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mjwall69 9/17/2022 10:01:11 AM (No. 1279976)
Yawn.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Manxsom Foe 9/17/2022 10:01:59 AM (No. 1279977)
Why is water vapor never mentioned as a greenhouse gas by these scientists? How can we limit cloud formation even if we get treaties with China, India, Russia and Ukraine?
When you look up the composition of air you find that it is 78% N, 21% O, and approximately 1% Ar. CO2 is such a small percentage that it's not usually mentioned despite being necessary for photosynthesis and therefore plant and animal life.
Maybe Miami, Manhattan, Oahu and Waycross GA will be safe from inundation during the next glacial periods.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
JackBurton 9/17/2022 10:02:30 AM (No. 1279980)
Tampa, Daytona Beach, other coastal Florida cities don't have a rising sea level problem.
Could it be that Miami was built on a marsh and environmentalists won't let Miami replace the sand as it washes away from the beaches?
Why, yes. I could.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
rightdog 9/17/2022 10:21:09 AM (No. 1279995)
Incredible that they are still spouting this hogwash.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Birddog 9/17/2022 10:24:37 AM (No. 1279997)
The ground there sinking, subsidence, is a greater issue than the seas rising....either cause can be offset by simply adding fill at a greater rate, not even a full "Galveston" ,raising the entire city 8-17feet over just a few years, is needed. Much of the Netherlands is BELOW sea level and always has been, south texas and Louisiana have dike and drainage system.
There is no reason to complain about the earth and weathers constant change, be a "Human" and build what you need, adapt.
If these sort of people lived at the end of the last Ice Age they would be complainong that it was getting sooo warm sooo fast that the animal skins/furs people were used to wearing would be uncomfortable and people would soon have to be NAKED! And then how would they survive???
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DVC 9/17/2022 10:25:02 AM (No. 1279998)
Sea levels have been rising for several centuries, at minimum. The rate has been about an inch and a quarter per decade, IIRC. There are ancient cities around the world that are now underwater, mostly due to local land subsidence rather than massive ocean changes.
Given that in some places tides DAILY run 15-25 feet, and anywhere, tides run at least 6 feet daily, this inches per decade change is pretty much meaningless.
If you aren't underwater at high tide NOW, then you are good for about a century of this very, very slow rising of the seas. If you ARE under water at high tide.....MOVE. How hard is that to figure out?
And as far as a REAL warning, every spring there is a neap tide which is much higher than the normal high tide. Again, if you are above water in the neap tide - you are good for probably a century or two.
This is, as usual, just more foolish BS, climate scam fear porn crap.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 9/17/2022 10:26:24 AM (No. 1279999)
Where will all the water come from? Ice bergs melting? Fill a glass with ice and then fill it with water. When the ice melts will the glass overflow?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 9/17/2022 10:26:51 AM (No. 1280000)
Chicken Little squawking again. Instead of the sky falling, the sea is rising. For a Professor of Geology, he should know that nature does not work that quickly. If it did, we would be in the middle of a new Ice Age, as that was forecast in the 1970's. You wonder where did the Prof get his degree, from the bottom of a Cracker Jack box.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
marbles 9/17/2022 10:27:46 AM (No. 1280003)
These stupid, stupid fear mongers. Ever have a drink with ice in the glass and the ice gradually melts? Does the level of your drink rise? No. Why not ? The ice takes up more volume than water.Same with the polar ice caps.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Safari Man 9/17/2022 10:28:00 AM (No. 1280004)
I bought 100 feet of Gulf-front in the panhandle in 2013. At that time the lot was 440 feet deep. It’s now about 500 feet from road to waterline. Did the sea level go down? No. The beach grew due to shifting sands. But if you looked at my property you might conclude the oceans are disappearing.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
bkt23 9/17/2022 10:28:17 AM (No. 1280005)
“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making
decisions than by putting those decisions into the hands of people who
pay no price for being wrong”. ~ Thomas Sowell
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Periwinkel 9/17/2022 10:30:49 AM (No. 1280008)
Which scientists??? Name names—and their credentials!
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 9/17/2022 10:31:51 AM (No. 1280010)
I'm looking forward to selling my beachfront property in Colorado in a few thousand years.
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Battery Park has been on dry ground at the southern tip of Manhattan for centuries. Last time I checked it was still above water.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
MickTurn 9/17/2022 10:42:16 AM (No. 1280025)
Oh the HORROR, someone in Europe spit in the ocean and now we're gonna have a tsunami!
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Kate318 9/17/2022 10:47:49 AM (No. 1280040)
“‘The tide is coming in and eventually it's not going to go back out,’ says Dr. Harold Wanless, a Geologist and Professor of Geography and Sustainable Development at University of Miami.”
Gasp!! The earth will stop rotating, as well?? Typical academic. All those words in his title and he’s still as dumb as a box of rocks.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
marlon 9/17/2022 10:50:42 AM (No. 1280044)
In other news Obama plans to build his fifth mansion, two if his current four mansions sit directly on ocean front property in Martha's Vineyard and Hawaii respectively. His mansions in DC and Chicago are not waterfront properties.
When asked to comment the former President and savior of the planet said while the oceans rising is a real problem I believe that if I have a mansion on every ocean I can indeed stop the rising of the seas.
Mankind should line up to thank me for this selfless act of charity.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
columba 9/17/2022 10:58:12 AM (No. 1280059)
There is no rise in the sea. Get over it.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
DVC 9/17/2022 11:15:55 AM (No. 1280078)
Re #20, the ice on land is the sourcem mostly glaciers today.
This was, during the Ice Ages, literally kilometers thick and covering the entire surface of North America north of about Nebraska, so a LOT of water stored on land as ice for 100,000+ years. Enough weight that apparently Nebraska is still slowly rising as the weight was removed 10,000 years ago, since the continents literally float on the liquid molten layers below.
Now days, the big storage area is Greenland, and some of the northern reaches of North America and Asia. In the Southern Hemisphere, there is very little land at latitudes and altitudes where ice would remain year round, other than Antarctica itself, which isn't changing significantly.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Norway 9/17/2022 11:16:15 AM (No. 1280080)
Well, Dr. Wanless (brainless) has to keep his job. so he has to crank out the usual political horse hockey every few years.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
hershey 9/17/2022 11:17:49 AM (No. 1280082)
I thought it was already supposed to happen....did no one tell the obamanator?? He bought seafront property up east and in Hawaii....
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 9/17/2022 11:19:18 AM (No. 1280087)
I actually went to read the article to see what evidence they present. Instead, I found another "scientist" making dire predictions based on " 'cause I say so, and I'm an expert."
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Dr. Constant 9/17/2022 11:23:58 AM (No. 1280093)
Good! that will mean more leftist move back to New York
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
FLCracker 9/17/2022 11:56:42 AM (No. 1280126)
"...nearly 60% of Miami-Dade county will be underwater."
And if it wasn't for dredging canals, it would still be underwater. BTW, what's the elevation of Everglades National Park?
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
Delilah 9/17/2022 11:57:46 AM (No. 1280128)
In one chemistry course back in the dark ages I was taught that water expands and is lighter when frozen (unlike any other substance on earth - God knew what he was doing). If it became more dense all bodies of water would have a permanent hunk of ice on the bottom and it would be a weird world.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
mc squared 9/17/2022 12:35:27 PM (No. 1280161)
This is from CBS.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 9/17/2022 1:13:02 PM (No. 1280189)
The last I read, the polar ice cap is growing. If this 'scientist' believes what he says, he is probably studying the false information disseminated by the alarmists... remember the lies perpetrated by the University of Sussex professor and the arctic temperature results achieved by moving around the monitoring equipment to achieve the worst result?
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
mobyclik 9/17/2022 1:31:22 PM (No. 1280199)
I'm sure the good Prof could recalculate his numbers with a government grant of...say...$50 million?
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
Axeman 9/17/2022 1:39:49 PM (No. 1280209)
Minorities and groomers hit hardest.
My father told me the SFO airport runway could be flooded. I told him that if the water gets within five feet of the runway they will just add another foot of soil and repave it, giving them another hundred years. He replied that would cost a lot of money. I mentioned it would probably cost only one percent of what we dumped into Ukraine. This ended that line of conversation.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
Venturer 9/17/2022 3:35:55 PM (No. 1280323)
If we don't do something.
just what the F do they expect us to do.?
There is no way human being s can stop the waters from rising, until Mother nature makes that decision.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
DVC 9/17/2022 5:13:04 PM (No. 1280388)
Re #39, do a search on "Ice Nine" some time.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
BigGeorgeTX 9/17/2022 5:39:53 PM (No. 1280415)
And yet, no one is snatching up property several miles inland... Which would be the new oceanfront. They've been peddling this BS for decades. Even if true, which it isn't, it won't happen overnight.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
rochow 9/17/2022 9:00:00 PM (No. 1280543)
According to 'scientists' some 30 years ago Manhattan and Long Island should long have been under water. Last I checked they are still there! These same 'scientists' were also declaring that the earth was cooling, crops would not grow, and we were entering a new ice age!!! Right!!
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
Faithfully 9/17/2022 9:22:49 PM (No. 1280554)
#5 This is how these "scientists" earn their daily bread.
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
MickTurn 9/18/2022 6:37:01 PM (No. 1281394)
We've heard these Fake Blobal Blarming BullSchifft stories before, show us the PROOF Morons!
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
mifla 9/21/2022 9:42:34 AM (No. 1283651)
Anyone else having Al Gore deja vu?
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Comments:
Here is a prime example of global warming fearmongering at its worst. Sea level rise is measured in millimeters per year. At worst, we are talking 4-6 inches by 2060. Miami-Dade county has an average elevation of six feet. Downtown Miami is at almost 7 feet. But Professor Wanless says most of the county will be underwater.