Florida sea levels are going to rise. When you live only a foot or so above sea level this means much of Florida will be adversely affected and many people will lose their way of life and possibly their homes. That Florida sea levels are going to rise is not fear mongering. The rise of Florida sea levels is environmental and climate change reality.
By Fred Grimm for the Miami Herald;
A sobering study released by Florida Atlantic University contemplated the effects of global warming in specific terms, particularly for South Florida, considered one of the more vulnerable metropolitan areas in the world, with six million residents clustered by the ocean, living barely above sea level.
The study from FAU’s Center for Urban and Environmental Solutions, adding to an overwhelming scientific consensus about the disastrous effects of global warming, and along with growing hard evidence that temperature changes are already altering the environment, ought to have sent tremors through the halls of government.
Except it didn’t. Perhaps the most peculiar phenomenon associated with global warming has been a burgeoning disdain for climate science even as scientific consensus grows more urgent. Forget the stickier question of whether global warming has been fueled by human activity (as an overwhelming percentage of climate scientists believe), a poll by the Pew last year found that only 59 percent of Americans will even acknowledge the earth is warming, compared to 79 percent just five years ago.
This peculiarly American phenomenon comes despite a decade of record high temperatures. And despite findings of a sustained global temperature increase from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Hadley Centre in England, and, just last week, the University of California’s Berkeley Earth project, which compiled more than a billion temperature records dating back to the 1800s from 15 sources around the world.
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/10/22/2467017/sea-levels-will-rise-washing-away.html#ixzz1bvkIi3fB
So how does anyone or anything convince these people they need to prepare for and expect to see these changes coming in the not to distant future? How do we make them see that Florida sea levels really are going to rise? I don’t see any way to get through to them unless and until the news resources they pay attention start to give these poor souls the true information.
The big money funded climate deniers aren’t going to do what is sensible and right in the near future. So,it is left up to relatives, friends and concerned groups to convince these people they are in danger. Especially in the south of the state where the rise of Florida sea levels will inundate much of the ground.
I know I will continue to support a green lifestyle, reduction of carbon footprints and the need for clean energy sources. However, I do find it sad that a group of Americans is willing to put other Americans at risk for corporate profit and short-term political gain.
Regardless of who benefits in the short term, all of us are going to suffer in some way from climate change in the long term. We are being warned again and again by scientists that this change is coming. We are watching native species move to higher ground to get into cooler areas. We are bearing witness to a huge die off of animals and plants. We are watching as parts of continents and many islands are overrun with water.
All of these things and more are happening now. Yet a segment of the population refuses to see what is right in front of their eyes. In fact, they make excuses and stay willfully ignorant as our environment slips further and further past any hope of recovery. Florida sea levels will rise and the planet will get warmer.
From Yahoo News dot com;
“Large parts of Eurasia, North Africa and Canada could potentially experience individual five-year average temperatures that exceed the 2 degree Celsius threshold by 2030 — a timescale that is not so distant,” the paper said.
Two years ago, industrialized nations set a 2 degree Celsius warming as the maximum limit to avoid dangerous climate changes including more floods, droughts and rising seas, while some experts said a 1.5 degree limit would be safer.
It is widely agreed among scientists that global pledges so far for curbing greenhouse gas emissions are not strong enough to prevent “dangerous” climate change.
Perhaps because I have been a lifelong observer of animals and nature, I see things that others may not notice. I know the sky is not as blue as it once appeared and I know some of my favorite animals are now on the verge of extinction. These animals have lost so much of their habitat and the environment has changed so drastically they no longer fit into the new man-made order.
Seriously people, time is running faster than we are moving to prevent environmental catastrophe. Please take any action you can to help prevent this man-made disaster. Being as green as possible is very important. It is also important to contact your elected representatives and tell them you want action on global warming and climate change.
The last thing is register to vote and support candidates who support the environment, regardless of party affiliation. If you don’t want to do these things for yourself, at least do them for the generations to come. If we do not there might be far fewer of those generations than we had hoped.
We are responsible for much of the planet's environmental problem. For instance, The Deep Water Horizon is leaking into the Gulf of Mexico...again. I though that well was plugged. Isn't that what BP told us?
