Ocean myths

[chuckChuck]

Is that your only argument Case?

Are the folks at Miami Dade County, NASA, NOAA, making this all up and the photo from the Miami Herald of flooding? All a hoax?

Don't look up!

[FarmJunkie]

They lost all credibility on any of these issues when they said they would balance the budget. Total bullshiters. Just wait til there is a real issue and no one believes they can handle it. 🙄

[chuckChuck]

Apparently some Republicans in Florida do look up!

https://theworld.org/stories/2016-04-14/south-florida-republicans-are-fed-their-party-leaders-climate-change

South Florida Republicans are fed up with their party leaders on climate change

For Jim Cason, the Republican mayor of Coral Gables, Florida, climate change is very real.

On a recent day he was looking at a newly drawn elevation map of his city of 50,000 on Florida’s Atlantic coast right next to Miami.

The map shows that big swaths of his city are already at, or barely above, sea level.

"One foot, zero, two feet," Cason said, pointing to the most vulnerable areas.

During very high tides these days, called “king tides,” streets in South Florida regularly flood.

About $3 billion in high-end real estate runs along the shore here, and Cason said the city has little power to protect it from rising waters.

“Other places can build walls, berms, sand dunes and so on. We’re on coral, which means the water will be coming up from the bottom,” he said in a recent interview.

“Building a wall is not a solution for our part of the country.”

[Robertbarlage]

Well chuck this is great news if it makes you stay home! We really don't need to see people like you anyhow so good!

[shtferbrains]

You don't need a government funded study to know large parts of Florida are built on sand bars.
I find it hard to believe many of those places can buy insurance.

If there is a 100ft wide strip of sand sticking out into the ocean they sell it as oceanfront property and build huge houses. When a hurricane takes them out they get federal disaster funding.

[agstar77]

You don't need a government funded study to know large parts of Florida are built on sand bars.
I find it hard to believe many of those places can buy insurance.

If there is a 100ft wide strip of sand sticking out into the ocean they sell it as oceanfront property and build huge houses. When a hurricane takes them out they get federal disaster funding.

That is just as crazy as BC delta farming below sea level and not expecting something to go wrong and asking Feds to fix it.

[Guest]

That is just as crazy as BC delta farming below sea level and not expecting something to go wrong and asking Feds to fix it.

i agree 100%
and then blaming it on climate change

[sumdumguy]

Florida, New Orleans, Shreveport are right in the swamp. Not a chance in my world that they wouldn’t flood. Horrible city planning there.

[jazz]

Florida, New Orleans, Shreveport are right in the swamp. Not a chance in my world that they wouldn’t flood. Horrible city planning there.

All of the lower BC mainland, southern MB, interlake and the St. Lawrence corridor are all old glacial alluvial outflows. I count 20M people living in the way of climate change in this country.

I count another 3 million living in a Tsunami and subduction/liquefaction zone.

They dont seem too concerned. 500K more moving into those areas every year thanks to Trudeau.

If the experts are wrong, which they will be and we end up in a wetter not drier environment, you can watch those places get ravaged pretty badly.