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Sea Rise Could Force Millions In Florida To Adapt Or Flee (miamiherald.com)
mdsolar writes: For the first time, a team of researchers looked at ongoing population growth in areas where the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has created flood maps that more accurately reflect local conditions. What they found was startling: projections that failed to factor in population growth in dense states like Florida hugely underestimated the number of people at risk and the cost of protecting them. Combined with the findings from a 2015 report, that means Florida can claim two titles: most property at risk, and now, most people.
This is going to rock, people! This is why global warming has my full support. Mother Earth has been begging for this for eons and it's time for us to deliver and prove that we are truly badass on a planetary scale. Terraformers who can truly shape the atmospheres of entire planets. Planets the size of the earth are mere toys to us. Little blue marbles in our giant hands. My greatest fear is that it will take too long. I want to see this in my lifetime. This needs to happen NOW. Not in a hundred years. Not in a thousand years. Not even next year. RIGHT NOW. Let's make this happen people! And Mars you motherfucker. You're next. I'm already putting aside as much money as I can for the inevitable canal front property that will be selling at bargain prices in just a few months.
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
Clearly 1% of the people are hogging 99% of the dirt! Those people in Denver dont need a *mile* of dirt under their feet when the deserving 99% in Florida with damp feet have almost nothing! It's time to redistribute the dirt!
VOTE SANDERS 2016
That's San Francisco - wrong coast.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
The geology of south Florida is completely different than the Dutch land. Look it up. You are suggesting we build dikes around the entire Florida coastline and have giant pumps just continually pump out the seawater? It won't happen. One, people won't allow their perfect beach view hidden behind a giant dike and the porosity of the ground it just way too high and the coastline is way too long.
I say we just build the wall and get the ocean to pay for it!
"What the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public." -Ray Zalinsky (Tommy Boy)