Miami coastlines lose ground to rising sea levels due to climate change • FRANCE 24 English
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- Опубликовано: 7 июн 2023
- Today is World Oceans Day. Global warming is causing sea levels to rise, and Miami is one of the US cities most vulnerable to this phenomenon. The sea level in south Florida has risen by 20cm since 1981 and is expected to continue rising. Even with optimal emission reduction efforts aimed at slowing global warming, Miami will continue to sink underwater. Are residents aware of the threat? What can be done to prepare for the inevitable? A report by Fanny Allard and Kethevane Gorjestani.
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"Don't worry, we'll be fine." - The wealthy Floridians
Miami wealth will build sea-defences unavailable in other countries, just so they can continue running their tumble driers, heated pools and the AC in their gasoline Humvees all day and night in 100deg outdoor temps
It’s 2 metres above sea 🌊 level, what do you expect???
4 inches in 40 years.
@Ray Jay you must love desantis, because desantis put the 'fake' climate emergency on his 'war on woke' list.
yes, but you missed the important part.
It is speeding up.
So four inches in forty years, maybe 40 inches in the next 40 years.
If we're really unlucky they will have to start measuring the rise in feet, or meters per decade.
No one wants to see the rise become more than a yard/meter per year.
The thing is, that's all possible.
It all depends on just how fast can the ice melt.
So far it has melted slowly, and at this rate would be gone in maybe 1,000 years.
If it can melt faster, that time shrinks.
First it shrinks to some centuries, maybe it gets so bad that it shrinks in decades.
Are you a betting man?
Science says it is speeding up, but how much is too much?
@jimthain8777 the melting ice accounts for very little of the rise. The majority of localized sea level increase stems from ocean currents. If you're going to parrot the scientific dogma at least do it accurately.
Do Fred, you are happy to sell to someone who doesn’t know about the threat? How do you sleep at night???
They can actually be sued
The ocean only rises in Miami?
There are stories of this sort across the entire planet.
Sea levels rise at different rates in different places in the world, it depends on various factors. The Eastern Seaboard of the US is where levels are rising the fastest, by the way!
No, but Miami will most likely be hit first by the rising sea level.
Ocean currents are the leading factor for localized rising sea levels.
No the keys will be first, but Florida being low and flat won't be able to escape it
Its not sea level rise. Its land subsidence. Ive have lived on the coast of New England for 62 years and the mean low tide and mean high tide levels have not changed a inch. Sea level is the same world wide. It ain't higher in one place and not the other.
According to Nasa, Rutgers University, and New Jerset Department of Environmental Protection, sea levels in New Jersey have risen 18 inches since the early 1900's. Idiotic climate change deniers do nothing but lie.
Are you measuring sea level rise in a bathtub?😂😂
That's the do your own research method, eh?
In real science research they take measurements worldwide and sea level rise is happening at different rates around the globe. Just fyi
@@JFB1111 it’s still sea level and it balances out. All the oceans are connected. It cant rise or lower in one location and not balance out worldwide. Like I said I have lived on the ocean my whole life and it has not changed . Now 25,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age my yard was 200 feet or so above sea level. However we have no idea whether we are still coming out of the last ice age or if we are heading back. Only climate over a 1000 or more years will tell that story.
@@masescranton9630High tides ARE higher in Boston AND Cape Cod AND Maryland AND New York City. TrumpTards are mmmmorons!!!
wow. "buyer beware" with this guy for sure.
The people who bought that house will be aware now lol. Don't you have to declare that kind of info when selling the house?
Why would you? Everyone with access to general information has this information already. Well, a few people don't believe in this, but that's not your fault.
As the climate heads into greater extremes globally, how can we best deal with future climate crises?
The short answer is that we cannot deal with them unless we take care of nature's inner balance.
We live in a tightly-closed and interdependent system in which everything boomerangs back to us. While living in such a system, we need to reconsider what we want and think, and how we treat each other, because our human connections are the primary influence on how nature responds to us.
It is common to think that climate is dependent on factors outside of us-whether it be balances between heat and cold in the environment, or the effects of various kinds of pollution we emit-because we lack a complete picture of how our attitudes to each other bring about the strongest responses from nature toward us.
No creature distorts nature the way that we people do. And it is not simply a matter of switching to renewable energy sources, electric cars and the like; it is a matter of how we relate to each other.
If we truly wish to witness more balance throughout nature and not have to deal with all kinds of cold waves and other natural disasters, then similarly to how we have electricity, water and gas meters in our homes, we should also have meters that count how much evil we emit into the world from our negative attitudes to each other. What I mean is that if we could feel the extent to which we emit negative forces into the world, which negatively ricochet back to us, then we would wish to change this negative driver within us. We would want to switch it to a drive that makes our human connections positive, and which harmonizes us with nature.
In simple terms, when we get up in the morning, we should first and foremost consider what we need to do in order for all people to have it good. Developing such an attitude is not so simple, yet we will need to seriously work on it as we head into the future. A life of increasing blows from nature or a life of peace and harmony depends on the extent to which we impact a shift in our attitudes to each other-from negative to positive.
When coastal home prices and property go down in value, I will pay attention to “rising sea levels”!
Some say the world will end in fire
Some say ice
Me, I just see fewer birds, fish, butterflies
Plenty of concrete though
I run to Europe, I run to the Caribbean
But coming here is the best thing I ever did
Miami, I love you
Why did you choose Miami?
Because Miami is the best city in the entire United States. Perception is everything.
Major reason nobody will say, dumping garbage.
That was informative for Fred to talk about the impact.
What makes you think land can't sink!
The Santos fellow will doubtless have a cunning plan
Will he ban the sea from libraries? Or just asks temperatures to not be "woke" and "rising"?
He will blame it on democrats. He's call it a hoax while standing ankle deep in water.
That, or erosion. When dredging projects aren't being funded, this happens.
Definitely due to climate change. Have you seen the videos of artic ice shelves falling into the water?
Miami is just a big sandbar. "Build Not my Church (or anything) on the Sand
Good thing you have a GOP governor. He can help you deny and ignore it!
So with everyone having a camera phone we see zero footage of this, ok then
That was very observant of this man. They made a good decision to sell. Sorry for the loss of their beautiful home.
He sold it without fair warning to an unsuspecting buyer, forget buyer beware, that was completely dishonest, but he's a foreigner, he's not going to care as much about an American buyer.
No, it's true, the ocean is definitely Rising quickly. I was recently on a beach in Florida standing in the dry sand, and within seconds the water was nearly knee deep!
If we keep blaming "climate change" and the only solution being offered is "drive less", how will we develop solutions now that will save lives now?
listen, those solutions exist, do you understand? you dont need to delevop anything new, there are already options that need improvement, the problems isnt a lack of options, its a blockade by lobbying and wealthy people with amoral levels of power that don't want their profitable businesses that damage the planet have to profit less or change in ways that would mean less profit.
If we keep giving excuses to not change our lifestyle, nothing will ever change.
man, so glad... i was going to buy a house around this area.
Wait a few years, houses will be cheaper in the future.
Jim Skea, the new head of the UN's IPCC, said it's not helpful to imply that a temperature rise of 1.5° Celsius is an existential threat to humanity.
“The world won’t end if it warms by more than 1.5°,”
He's absolutely right. No matter how hot it gets the world won't end. Humanity on the other hand, Well, right now we are getting a small taste of things to come as we fly by 1.5. Enjoy the ride.
South Florida will become an expensive boat life culture in a capitalistic America.
Desantis has the 'fake' climate change on his 'war on woke' list too
I'll laugh when Florida is underwater.
The guy said that the people from New York had no idea because New York doesn't have a problem. New York was built on the giant mud flats where a river meets the sea. I don't see how New York would be able to escape sea level raise.
But it's not the sea level raise that is going to be the biggest problem with global warming. The biggest problem is when large areas are no longer suitable for human habitation, like North Africa. Add a few degrees to the hottest temperature in the middle of summer all around North Africa and it's not going to take long until hundreds of millions of people will need to move somewhere else.
If America has to abandon some cities or totally rebuild some cities, that is a massive financial cost but imagine the financial cost if farming is no longer possible in the southern states within the US. All those farmers will have to move somewhere else where their crops will grow and their animals can survive, that's not going to be particularly good for the US economy.
Wasn't Manhattan supposed to be under15 feet of water by now according to Al Gore?
@@tedfriesen9466 no
Thanks@@matthewbaynham6286 You're right. What he said was due to global warming, melting ice could release enough water to cause at 20-foot rise in sea level “in the near future.”
Farming will not be possible anywhere on Earth, just like it wasn't possible in the Pleistocene when the climate was erratic, unpredictable. Expect populations drop as the food availability from agriculture vanishes.
@@ia8018 What, nobody was farming 2.58 million years ago? Shocking. Are you for real? Agriculture production continues to rise.
ALL of Florida will go under water. I hope I am not alive on the Earth to see it. I just don't want to see it!
Or is Florida sinking?
Sea level is not rising, Florida is sinking.
Floridians will all migrate to Wyoming and make a new Miami there
no Georgia
I don't understand why anyone is buying along Miami Beach, but my guess is that these are older people with not many years left becuase in 10-20 years it will be under water.
Sea levels change naturally. Probably not smart to build so close to the sea.
Constant dredging (beach renourishment) funded by the Army Corp of Engineers (the government) is why these coastlines are diminishing. There are major projects all up and down both coasts and in the gulf. The erosion is a constant and natural occurrence. Recently, less funding has been given to the Army Corp, so there's been a massive reduction in projects. Beaches and coastlines that were usually repaired each year haven't been given funding.
Ignorance runs deep with this one. THe force is strong.
@@ravenken Elaborate.
Sea levels change naturally for sure. Florida used to be under the sea and it will be under the sea again.
See the positive side, if you're republican, you won't need to wonder anymore why you pants are always flooded 😂
Subsidence again . ! What shall
we lie about now ! R
Pure propaganda.
All Lies.
Erosion!
OOOOGA BOOOOGA!
Politically speaking, as a US democrat, I'm looking forward to the disappearance of Florida off the US political map😁
You are a scumbag. Typical democrat thinking.
Oh look, a democrat (the party of peace and unity) is excited the everyday normal people will all die. Very loving and inclusive of you bro.
As a Republican citizen you are trash destroying our country go lick a frozen pole instead of commenting garbage...
Your thinking about politics, I am thinking of the native plants and animals of florida hitting rock bottom lol.
@@Joe-bs6hd (Issa joke)
Ya'll love "black humor" but turn into giant snowflakes when anyone else utilizes it.
Sea level is changing everyday
The Trump Minion De Santis doesn’t care!
Presumably they are going to rename the city into " New Venice" . Your going to need a boat to commute to your house ! Ohh and make your house into a floating one ! . Thats actually a selling point " the sea is at your front door , go fishing from your balcony ! "
Lol do you actually realise how much water I take to raise the see level 2 feet thats global from coats of USA to coast of west Africa 🙈🙈🙈
With your spelling "see" is when you look, but "sea" is the large body of water between different land masses.
@@matthewbaynham6286 thank you for very constructive comment “ Ocean “
Yes, actually I do.
So far it has only come up a small bit because the oceans are so large.
The problem is that so far only a tiny fraction of the ice has melted.
More melts every year.
Literally billions of gallons.
Care to bet on how fast it can disappear?
What do you do if it goes from millimeters a year to centimeters a year?
How fast is too fast?
100000 year ago the Britain was under 1 kilometre of ice . Funny it was never mentioned on news or media that the volcano on La Palma erupted for 40 day putting Billions of cubic meter of sulphur dioxide into that atmosphere . No it’s all down to plastic bags and cars 🙈🙈🙈🙈
He said Antarctic ice melt? The Antarctic sea ice is actually growing, Miami is safe for now.
Wrong, its actually at a record low right now in Antarctica. Of course it was very high just a few years ago but for right now its not and the trend will probably continue downward.
@@mike-me7om in some areas the ice is retreating, however in other areas is growing faster than the retreat, quoted NASA and government figures of 12.5% loss per decade would mean the Antarctic should be 50-60% smaller now, based on 1970’s satellite data, it isn’t so maybe there are miscalculations or misinformation. The Arctic is disappearing very quickly, but there is evidence of the northern hemisphere expert glacial growth and retreat repeatedly. The Arctic won’t recover in our lifetime, it will be interesting to see the change in biodiversity and the range of animals with the loss of sea ice.
😂 safe for now… 🤣 it’s a ticking time bomb, duh 🙄
@@mike-me7om 🤫 we’re wasting our logic on what looks like another Republican cult member. Pray they get it! We need them to!
sorry wrong!!!!
See, Neither NASA or Tesla thinking not even close to solving raising sea levels. Their conventional thinking is like build a space travel which takes more than 6 months to reach other planet. But peetha engineering is like create a blackhole on the sea, which ends at Mars, then use advanced technology to make water flow to Mars. Solving two problems at the same time.
You do realize NASA constantly studies the ocean, right? They don't have the authority or funds necessary to minimize the effects of human-induced climate change.
BS
This is complete bs
The irony is the people denying sea level rise the most (boomers and older) won't be around to deal with the worst of it. Speak to those who've lived along the coastline for decades, and vote wisely.
Neither will you😅
Miami could be a future dive site.
Knock it off.
These are the same experts that told me in the 1950's that we'd have flying cars by 1995, and that NY would be underwater by now. So why should I believe them now?
Too late already past the tipping point for are oceans now the real consequences are showing up and this is one them killing the real food chain that mattrers and we will all pay for it on catastrophic levels never seen before in are lifetime unfortunately
There's often a gap between what the science says & what the media says
individual experts can definitely be wrong about certain things.
Just because they were wrong about the rate of change, doesn't mean they were wrong about that change.
By the way those flying cars are being seriously worked on these days.
If you don't believe me google it for yourself.
What a bunch of Bologna
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
Explain me one thing ... When ICE MELTS it occupies LESS VOLUME than liquid water. How come sea levels RISE when ICE in it such as THE **WHOLE NORTH POLE** and other GLACIERS ... MELTS ???
What happens when ice melts in your glass of water?!
You know there's a lot of ice on the land, right? That melts, flows into the sea, and wow, there's extra water.
@@unclescipio3136 doesn't a great portion of it evaporate or infiltrate first, until it reaches ... the oceans ?? 🤔
open ocean absorbs a lot more solar energy than ice covered ocean
@@renatosureal some of it, sure.
Living in Miami. I don’t see your Noah Duluge any close. But from Magic City I’m watching Paris and France ON FIRE 🔥. Take care of own problems like those riots, rampant crime, uncontrollable illegal migration and leave my city alone.