OT: Is Miami Sinking?
Muddy
USA
Not a new article but came across it and thought it was interesting
https://www.businessinsider.com/miami-fl…
What's happening in the Keys is pretty concerning. On this issue I tend fall on the left side of things. Some of the most important cities in the world are right on the water, and a few feet could do a lot of damage. My question to you is, could Miami Beach be completley submerged in 50 years or a better question, Does Papi Chulo have any water wings in his shed?
https://www.businessinsider.com/miami-fl…
What's happening in the Keys is pretty concerning. On this issue I tend fall on the left side of things. Some of the most important cities in the world are right on the water, and a few feet could do a lot of damage. My question to you is, could Miami Beach be completley submerged in 50 years or a better question, Does Papi Chulo have any water wings in his shed?
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There have been warm and cool periods throughout the history of the earth. I remember going on a field trip as a kid and have a park ranger show us fossilized ocean creatures on a mountain top 50 miles from the current shoreline. Even the Sahara desert was an ocean at some point.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019…
This stuff happened well before man and our "man-made climate change" came along. This is just how the Earth changes.
You can be living a happy life on either US coast and a Tsunami generated across the Atlantic and Pacific could ruin your property value. A large volcano thousands of miles away could ruin your life more than Covid has.
We are tiny specs in the grand plan. Enjoy the good times and deal with setbacks as best as you can. Life is too short to worry about whether your carbon footprint is going to kill you and your neighbors. The Earth has been doing that on it's own quite well for millions of years.
I totally agree with a few other things you said but wanted to highlight that. Still the doomsayers can't or refuse to understand it.
(he does this once in a while...)
https://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/p25…
I heard one commentator say that building all these coastal monstrosities and then using the resources to rebuild them again after a natural disaster is a "form of societal madness".
Not many people liked living in Florida when my grandfather retired there in 1960..... then whole house AC became common.