FL city votes to secede to avoid being swalled by sea

[Luddly Neddite]

South Florida City Votes To Secede In Last-Ditch Effort To Avoid Being Swallowed By The Sea

by Katie Valentine Posted on October 22, 2014 at 11:54 am Updated: October 23, 2014 at 9:43 am


7,001Share This 622Tweet This

"South Florida City Votes To Secede In Last-Ditch Effort To Avoid Being Swallowed By The Sea"


Share:



Vehicles negotiate heavily flooded streets as rain falls, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, in Miami Beach, Fla. Certain neighborhoods regularly experience flooding during heavy rains and extreme high tides.


CREDIT: AP Photo/Lynne Sladky


One small city in South Florida is willing to secede from the state if it means the threat of sea level rise will finally be taken seriously.


The city commission of South Miami, FL — a city that sits just west of the University of Miami in Coral Gables — passed a resolution this week that calls for Florida to be split into a North Florida and a South Florida, a creation of an additional state that would allow South Florida to take climate change preparation and adaptation into its own hands.


“It’s very apparent that the attitude of the northern part of the state is that they would just love to saw the state in half and just let us float off into the Caribbean,” South Miami Mayor Philip Stoddard said. “They’ve made that abundantly clear every possible opportunity and I would love to give them the opportunity to do that.”

Incredible that we let the 3% continue to do this kind of damage.

 

[Vandalshandle]

The Right will still claim that global warming is an Al Gore conspiracy even after they have to start using a boat to get to work.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Why New York's Sea Level Is Rising Faster Than the World's

Sea level is rising around the world, but in many places on the U.S. East Coast, it's rising considerably faster than elsewhere. An oceanographer studying this phenomenon explains.

By Amanda DeMatto



Comments
12

Share





Rising sea levels due to global warming threaten low-lying New York City


Spencer Platt/Getty Images


July 9, 2012 12:00 PM Text Size: A . A . A

A team of U.S. Geological Survey scientists recently discovered that the sea level along the East Coast of the United States, particularly a 600-mile stretch from Cape Hatteras, N.C., to Boston, has risen at an annual rate three to four times faster than the global average since 1990.

When the global sea level rose by 2 inches, Norfolk, Va., saw a rise of 4.8 inches, Philadelphia answered with 3.7 inches, and New York City 2.8 inches, according to the study, which was published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Peter Howd, an oceanographer and co-author of the study for the U.S. Geological Survey, helped illuminate just why the East Coast is in the wrong place at the wrong time. It's complicated, but the short version is: The Gulf Stream might be slowing down.

More at the link.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Miami Finds Itself Ankle-Deep in Climate Change Debate

By CORAL DAVENPORTMAY 7, 2014




Photo


Scenes of street flooding, like this one on Alton Road in Miami Beach in November, are becoming increasingly common. Credit Angel Valentin for The New York Times



MIAMI BEACH — The sunny-day flooding was happening again. During high tide one recent afternoon, Eliseo Toussaint looked out the window of his Alton Road laundromat and watched bottle-green saltwater seep from the gutters, fill the street and block the entrance to his front door.

“This never used to happen,” Mr. Toussaint said. “I’ve owned this place eight years, and now it’s all the time.”

Down the block at an electronics store it is even worse. Jankel Aleman, a salesman, keeps plastic bags and rubber bands handy to wrap around his feet when he trudges from his car to the store through ever-rising waters.


Continue reading the main story
Related Coverage

• 
  
  U.S. Climate Has Already Changed, Study Finds, Citing Heat and FloodsMAY 6, 2014
• 
  
  Debate That Divides: On Climate, Republicans and Democrats Are From Different ContinentsMAY 7, 2014
  http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/08/u...-eye-of-the-storm-on-climate-change.html?_r=0

A new scientific report on global warming released this week, the National Climate Assessment, named Miami as one of the cities most vulnerable to severe damage as a result of rising sea levels. Alton Road, a commercial thoroughfare in the heart of stylish South Beach, is getting early ripples of sea level rise caused by global warming — even as Florida’s politicians, including two possible contenders for the presidency in 2016, are starkly at odds over what to do about it and whether the problem is even real.

"The theme of the report is that climate change is not a future thing, it’s a ‘happening-now’ thing,” said Leonard Berry, a contributing author of the new report and director of the Florida Center for Environmental Studies at Florida Atlantic University. “Alton Road is one of the now things.”

More at the link.

 

[Billy_Bob]

Normal, cyclical cycles of rain and dry... But because they are to young to have seen the cycles before they take the bait and the lie continues to grow...

More liberal fools who think the island is going to tip over...

 

[Manonthestreet]

Why do they need to secede,,,,,, just tax their residents.

 

[Politico]

The Right will still claim that global warming is an Al Gore conspiracy even after they have to start using a boat to get to work.

There's no argument to have. Miami was built in a fishbowl. Half the land is artificially elevated. What idiot does that? Same goes for NYC. It would be mud flats if they didn't actively keep the water out.Do yeah they can float away along with NO for all I care.

 

[jc456]

South Florida City Votes To Secede In Last-Ditch Effort To Avoid Being Swallowed By The Sea

by Katie Valentine Posted on October 22, 2014 at 11:54 am Updated: October 23, 2014 at 9:43 am


7,001Share This 622Tweet This

"South Florida City Votes To Secede In Last-Ditch Effort To Avoid Being Swallowed By The Sea"


Share:



Vehicles negotiate heavily flooded streets as rain falls, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, in Miami Beach, Fla. Certain neighborhoods regularly experience flooding during heavy rains and extreme high tides.


CREDIT: AP Photo/Lynne Sladky


One small city in South Florida is willing to secede from the state if it means the threat of sea level rise will finally be taken seriously.


The city commission of South Miami, FL — a city that sits just west of the University of Miami in Coral Gables — passed a resolution this week that calls for Florida to be split into a North Florida and a South Florida, a creation of an additional state that would allow South Florida to take climate change preparation and adaptation into its own hands.


“It’s very apparent that the attitude of the northern part of the state is that they would just love to saw the state in half and just let us float off into the Caribbean,” South Miami Mayor Philip Stoddard said. “They’ve made that abundantly clear every possible opportunity and I would love to give them the opportunity to do that.”

Incredible that we let the 3% continue to do this kind of damage.

Sort of what happens when nine inches of rain falls. holy crap, what a bunch of stoopid people.

 

[jc456]

Miami Finds Itself Ankle-Deep in Climate Change Debate

By CORAL DAVENPORTMAY 7, 2014




Photo


Scenes of street flooding, like this one on Alton Road in Miami Beach in November, are becoming increasingly common. Credit Angel Valentin for The New York Times



MIAMI BEACH — The sunny-day flooding was happening again. During high tide one recent afternoon, Eliseo Toussaint looked out the window of his Alton Road laundromat and watched bottle-green saltwater seep from the gutters, fill the street and block the entrance to his front door.

“This never used to happen,” Mr. Toussaint said. “I’ve owned this place eight years, and now it’s all the time.”

Down the block at an electronics store it is even worse. Jankel Aleman, a salesman, keeps plastic bags and rubber bands handy to wrap around his feet when he trudges from his car to the store through ever-rising waters.


Continue reading the main story
Related Coverage

• 
  
  U.S. Climate Has Already Changed, Study Finds, Citing Heat and FloodsMAY 6, 2014
• 
  
  Debate That Divides: On Climate, Republicans and Democrats Are From Different ContinentsMAY 7, 2014

A new scientific report on global warming released this week, the National Climate Assessment, named Miami as one of the cities most vulnerable to severe damage as a result of rising sea levels. Alton Road, a commercial thoroughfare in the heart of stylish South Beach, is getting early ripples of sea level rise caused by global warming — even as Florida’s politicians, including two possible contenders for the presidency in 2016, are starkly at odds over what to do about it and whether the problem is even real.

"The theme of the report is that climate change is not a future thing, it’s a ‘happening-now’ thing,” said Leonard Berry, a contributing author of the new report and director of the Florida Center for Environmental Studies at Florida Atlantic University. “Alton Road is one of the now things.”

More at the link.

sort of what happens when Chicago gets nine inches of rain. Hell just four inches of rain. Nine? Are you really that stoopid? And what is it you call me? hahahahahahahaa you intellectual genius.

 

[Ravi]

I'd vote for that. All the money in the state's coffers comes from South Florida and I'd be more than happy to condemn the rest of the state to poverty

 

[Desperado]

I have lived most of my life in south Florida, this high tide phenomenon has been going on as long as I can remember.
Nothing new, when I was a kid, in the spring and fall with a full moon the streets would flood with a high tide. All of a sudden it is a problem?
Some one is just trying to make a buck off a natural occurrence.

 

[bodecea]

Let me put on my RW hat for a moment:

Who cares? I live well above sea level. Nothing to see here.

 

[Ravi]

I was on Miami Beach a couple of weeks ago and entire blocks were flooded around an under-construction hotel. Money down the toilet, imo. The flooding has gotten worse in the last few years, especially on Miami Beach, in Hollywood, and in Dania Beach.

 

[R.D.]

Just a bunch of impatient ungrateful racists if you ask me