There have been no rainstorms and no burst water pipes, but Alton Road, one of the main avenues on touristy Miami Beach, is flooded again. Shop owners use sandbags and barriers to keep the water surging from the sewers from entering their venues.
Passersby take their shoes off to wade through puddles. The street, just a few blocks from the Atlantic Ocean, is “Ground Zero” when it comes to the disturbing rising sea levels in Miami and much of southern Florida.
Alton Road is barely 85 centimetres above sea level. Work to install water pumping stations at a cost of 32 million dollars is expected to be complete by year’s end. The intention is to cope with the problem that is also affecting millions of inhabitants and properties in the low, marshy lands in southern Florida, a tourist paradise threatened by climate change.
A federal assessment in May identified Miami as one of the cities most vulnerable to climate change.
http://www.gulf-times.com/environmen...to-rising-sea-
Nothing to see here folks... just close your eyes and go back to sleep.
Climate change isn't happening. Glaciers and ice caps aren't melting. Sea levels aren't rising.
Must just be a mirage or something.
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