Miami, other cities in Florida, USA slowly sinking into rising sea

[LAGC]

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.

[Kadmos]

Nothing to do with climate change....this is the American obesity problem

[T2K]

The issue isn't whether or not climate change occurs, obviously it does. That's why we've had ice ages and such.

The issue is whether human activity can cause it.

[deth502]

fucking idiocy. yes, icebergs melting cause water levels to rise. that why when you fill a glass of water and ice to the brim, it spills all over when the ice melts, right? read a fucking science book sometime.

[alismith]

Look up subsidence.....it's happeneing here in MD, too.

The ocean level isn't rising, the ground level is sinking (settling).

Same result, different causes.

[ltorlo64]

Look up subsidence.....it's happeneing here in MD, too.

The ocean level isn't rising, the ground level is sinking (settling).

Same result, different causes.

Especially in an area that is mostly marsh, swamp and sand.

[Schuetzenman]

Look up subsidence.....it's happeneing here in MD, too.

The ocean level isn't rising, the ground level is sinking (settling).

Same result, different causes.

This!

[Goodman]

Look up subsidence.....it's happeneing here in MD, too.

The ocean level isn't rising, the ground level is sinking (settling).

Same result, different causes.

There's also erosion of beaches. Storms wash sand away, water takes its place. It's not a change of level, it is a change of location. The Hatteras light house was moved inland 2900 feet because of this. In 130 years the shore naturally moved over a quarter mile. Nature will be doing us a favor if it washes out Miami in a similar manner.
http://www.nps.gov/caha/learn/histor...lighthouse.htm

[alismith]

There's also erosion of beaches. Storms wash sand away, water takes its place. It's not a change of level, it is a change of location. The Hatteras light house was moved inland 2900 feet because of this. In 130 years the shore naturally moved over a quarter mile. Nature will be doing us a favor if it washes out Miami in a similar manner.
http://www.nps.gov/caha/learn/histor...lighthouse.htm

That's, definitely, a factor with barrier islands. Barrier islands are supposed to move back and forth as the currents dictate. However, our barrier island, Ocean City, is totally populated and covered with asphalt and it no longer moves in relation to the currents. Humans made it stationary. Nature formed them to move with the currents and protect the inland areas, but since it can't move now, the waves are beating the hell out of the dunes and washing away sand. We are trying to preserve the beaches by pumping in sand from the ocean. This is only a temporary solution as storms keep washing the new sand away. Pretty soon, the whole island is going to disappear,

But, this has nothing to do with globull warming, but is, totally, a result of resort growth in an area that wasn't meant for that growth. Much of the East Coast's barrier islands are facing similar problems.

[5.56NATO]

And this is bad how?

[l921428x]

can't they move to cuba now?

[weevil]

So if it's the rising ocean levels caused by global warming from carbon emissions, then why aren't all coastal cities suffering from this issue???

Does Florida have some sort of special unique sea level that only affects it's cities while the rest of the world stays high and dry???


Amazing how the Globull Warming nutcases try to use anything they can find as proof of their religious beliefs.

[skorpion]

That damn Globallz Warminz!

[davepool]

WOO HOO, come on global warming. I own 40 acres of dirt and rocks near the california border, i wants me some beach front, think i'll go out a make some more carbon footprint shit

[skorpion]

WOO HOO, come on global warming. I own 40 acres of dirt and rocks near the california border, i wants me some beach front, think i'll go out a make some more carbon footprint shit

[Kadmos]

In other global warming news, here are some monks having a snowball fight in Jerusalem.

[Full Otto]

Here's some inner city monks having a snowball fight

[jet3534]

When I was in my early teens, I went on a Church youth group retreat in a town located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. We were staying in a rural location and one day I walked out in the back yard and noticed in the dirt hundreds of fossilized sea shells and various animals that had been dead for millions of years. At that point I understood that this area had at one time been at the bottom of the ocean -- and I knew then that climate change does happen in a big way and happened long before humans walked the earth.

[308]

That damn Globallz Warminz!

What a great image! LAGC...is that you

[FunkyPertwee]

When I was in my early teens, I went on a Church youth group retreat in a town located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. We were staying in a rural location and one day I walked out in the back yard and noticed in the dirt hundreds of fossilized sea shells and various animals that had been dead for millions of years. At that point I understood that this area had at one time been at the bottom of the ocean -- and I knew then that climate change does happen in a big way and happened long before humans walked the earth.

Those seas shells were put there by Noah's flood.