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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.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.
Sort of what happens when nine inches of rain falls. holy crap, what a bunch of stoopid people.
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.Miami Finds Itself Ankle-Deep in Climate Change Debate
By CORAL DAVENPORTMAY 7, 2014
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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.
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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.
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Debate That Divides: On Climate, Republicans and Democrats Are From Different ContinentsMAY 7, 2014
"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.”
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