Is Miami Beach Doomed?
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- Опубликовано: 8 мар 2016
- Miami Beach could be underwater this century. The sea level around the tourist paradise has risen steadily in recent decades and flooding in the streets has become more frequent and severe. Most of the city sits just four to five feet above sea level, and on a foundation of porous limestone-making it especially susceptible to tidal flooding and surging oceans.
As experts predict the sea level to rise significantly in the coming years, the city of Miami Beach must decide how to keep itself afloat. This documentary examines how the city has taken unprecedented steps to save itself from the sea.
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Who else is back after the condo collapse killed dozens in June 2021?
Frankly, I was shocked to see that Surfside was built on a skinny little peninsula. All I could think of was what a dumb place to build especially if a bad hurricane comes through.
Why do people ask these questions?
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@@neighborhoodcatlady6094 , sorry to tell you that not only have our rich folk been flooding all the barrier islands and low-lying coasts from Miami up to New York with pricey condos and beach mansions, but taxpayers across the country are forced to subsidize it, with the National Flood Insurance Program, which pays about 90% of the cost of insurance these areas that no private insurance company will touch, and which program is running in steep losses; and with constant beach rebuilding every time a hurricane or nor'easter blows through, eradicating beaches and wrecking houses and buildings. How stupid is this? And how can we afford it when we also have thousands of extremely deficient dams and bridges whose failure could kill thousands of people, and every other area in the country is dealing with deteriorating infrastructure. It makes my head hurt to think about it.
@@chicagonorthcoast- who do you think all those high-priced legislators actually represent, anyway?
Many people forget Florida was originally a swampland, that was covered with dirt, a lot of dirt.... One day the ocean will claim back his territory!
mother nature always wins! ya know untill we nuke it
I consider everything south of Jacksonville to be a glorified sandbar. Sure there may be a lot of soil on top of that sandbar, but it is still a sandbar just waiting for sea level and storm surges to pull apart.
@@goodbodha I agree. I think that if the whole area was more intelligently managed, in balance and with respect to nature, people could live their safely. The Native Americans built complex cities in swamplands in this way. But the way the its being done now is unsustainable and not good for the land or the people trying to live there.
@@jango7889 Nuke nature. Radiation rains back on you and you are dead meat. Nature wins
Did the ocean tell you that?
“No community has ever done this” no literally a whole country has done it The Netherlands.
Didn’t the Netherlands reclaim land. This is established city’s trying to protect themselves. I think it’s different but I’m sure similar techniques can be used.
@@tonyhussey3610 While that is true, most of the Netherlands is already under sea level, so they have to do these kind of things as well.
Anaïs I appreciate that but I’m only guessing that it’s going to be harder because you have to build around existing structures and systems and can’t work from a blank sheet. Definitely think the Dutch can be a good example for a solution though.
New Orleans
The Netherlands did reclaim land, but behind the screens it is a constant balancing act, for example if we lower the water level in the polders by to much the land will lower and then we go a new problem. And the problem of salt water entering the water supply is close here as well. quite sure that with a few good policy's and the funds to do it this can be fixed (for the time being). On the other hand a good disaster also helps convincing people.
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The solution is... Don't build on a beach waterfront
Yep.👍🏾
I don't know who ever thought this was a good idea
Except the whole Us will be environmentally sunk. Either through deserts or rising waters and the population density doesn’t help
@@twocents288 Woooooooooooo (insert pic of The Nature Boy) 😂🤣👏🏾😂🤣👏🏾👏🏾😂🤣👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Riiiight......
No civilization lasts forever. Those who survive must adapt.
Alan Land are u a Science teacher
NOPE, u CAN NOT adapt. u are going away nice and slow ......... BUT u will disapear .....enjoy life bro
Or, or or, you could just help stop climate change, yeah, sounds good
@@elikeaton2714 - no, but I was educated as a research chemist in a public university. Does it really matter how I make money?
No he's not a teacher he's a Republican lol
Watching this in the context of the Surfside Condo collapse. Who else?
Just saw this in my recommended...video from 5 yrs ago.
I'm actually watching it in the context of our country's stupidity in encouraging and subsidizing mega- development in, and the movement of tens of millions of people to, the areas of the country that are at the most risk from floods, catastrophic storms, and catastrophic drought and wildfires, at the expense of everyone else, and at great cost to the Midwestern and Mid-south cities with their locations well above sea level, their ample fresh water supplies, their fertile farmland that needs no irrigation, their relatively moderate climates, and their relative freedom from extreme weather hazard (I say "relative" because no area is totally free- we had tornadoes outside Chicago last night). We're bleeding the entire population and using twice the resources per capita necessary for comfort, to enable our richer classes to defy nature and reality.
Watching in the context of someone who lived down the street from the collapsed building, in a very similar building, and experienced the single street wide barrier island flooding.
Hey Mayor you can’t stop water. Just ask New Orleans
Well we see now that no one was thinking about the integrity of the condos on the beach. Jeez.
Building large structures on swampland 👍
@Robert Beck Climate deniers? I think we all agree that we have a climate.
@@Itsmeagain828 And its in danger!!! LOOK at CA and FL.
And you just keep building hi-rises on the beach.
And suckers keep buying them and living in them
That's because developers run the brainless politicians, there as almost everywhere else. And the developers don't build for long term- they build for 30 year mortgages, if even that long, or for as fast as they can get sucker speculators to buy the places.
Better enjoy it while it lasts.
Miami's done, basically S. Florida, the Everglades and most major US coastal cities (Great Lakes included) are screwed by the 2100. Too bad for the Everglades b/c most of its macrofauna will die out from the salt water, the Louisianna bayou too b/c the working class down there but really fucked over by politicians and the energy industry since 1900.
Khu NoPie says:
"Sea level rise is a lie - Read on"
==
True or false?
Khu NoPie is stupid.
Khu NoPie says
"*Sea level is not rising at all in the Maldives, the Laccadives, Tuvalu,
India, Bangladesh, French Guyana, Venice, Cuxhaven, Korsør, Saint Paul Island, Qatar, etc.
Morner's reply to the government of the Maldives stunt in 2009;"
==
search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=sea+leve+rising+bangladesh&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001
search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=sea+leve+rising+Venice&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001
search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=sea+leve+rising+Nile+delta&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001
Question again,
True or false?
Khu NoPie is stupid.
Khu NoPie says:
"No YOUR Stuppid"
==
But you can't explain why I'm Stuppid?
At least I did, didn't I?
Are these all lying?
search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=sea+leve+rising+bangladesh&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001
search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=sea+leve+rising+Venice&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001
search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=sea+leve+rising+Nile+delta&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001
Question again,
True or false?
Khu NoPie is stoopid.
lol
Been in Miami. Not enjoyable. I am sure both Pitbull and Justin Bieber would disagree with me.
Did this Mayor advocate for less building on Miami Beach? There should be a moratorium on multi unit structures on Miami Beach especially after the building collapse in Surfside.
The parking garage underneath buildings is a style that probably should be revised. Have parking for tenants outdoor only, with possibly a connecting foyer (for drive thru and deliveries)
@@tizzyp2911 , good thought but it requires a larger land footprint, and land is at a steep premium there. It is estimated that the Champlain site will sell for at least $100 million, in spite of the known hazard, and to someone who will build vastly more expensive condos, like Ivanka's place just a block away.
Sea level is the underlying problem but what will intimately cause Florida’s demise is hurricanes. If the sea level is higher hurricanes will be exponentially more destructive
Never have never will consider living in FL.
Ya Florida has bad schools are the summer weather gets a little insane
You mean ultimately?
@@s.barasa yea sorry for the typo
@@Davido50 Lots of places in Florida are high enough to not get flooded. Orlando is roughly 80 feet above sea level.
What do you expect when you build a city at sea level.
This is not related to sea level idiot, Miami is sinking because they built it on a freaking swamp, the ground is sinking. Tell me if other coastal cities are suffering from this mega sea rise...
@@SirKolass short answer is yes
@@SirKolass London Bangkok & who know where else is sinking due to what is being built on top of it buckling the plates
Wow, their mayor is actually competent
it's like Noah telling people don't worry about the boat we got this. I'll make the city the boat. The problem is I don't think it's cost effect.
No he’s a moron
@@MistressOP What's the alternative? Tell everyone to leave the city; it's hopeless? Oh-by-the-way: It's "effective" not "effect." Think adjective.
@@boxsterman77 Frankly, pushing back the city, prepping the area for withdrawing and offering a VERY good buy out would be.along with setting up solid housing options for them. We can't play games with the billions it would take to save a few million in housing. I'd love if they could keep their homes. Hell, I'd love if our grandparents, and parents had a thought in there head when people first started talking about climate change and took Jimmy Carters solar panels to heart. the problem is they didn't. We get to clean up the mess. I'm very sorry for the people who live on that coast. in Florida, in cali, all over but.... the sea is rising. I can't unrise it and neither can you can this point. the count down clock to actually fix this problem has come and gone. playing games with the ocean like this is just going to get first responses in a major wave event killed.
@BadPhilosophy And the "scientific community" in ancient times thought the earth was flat until Pythagoras proved them wrong.
Who is here after Collins Ave building collapse?
This is like the National Geographic special that mapped out exactly how New Orleans would be destroyed by the next Category 5 hurricane, before Katrina.
Not to worry. Florida's governor has forbiden state employees to discuss climate change. Problem solved.
Brooks Anderson nothing like sticking your head in the wet sand to make all of our problems go away.,what reckless dumbacity.
isn't that illegal since it takes away freedom of speech
This statement is a lie and you should stop repeating DemocRat TV talking points. We have attended a dozen meetings in the past two years, organized by FDOT and State environmental agencies to discuss climate change, sea level rise and so on. Whether it's truth or not, that's a different story but these two subjects are being extensively studied and discussed on a daily basis.
@@AutobahnVault Note the date of the post vs. your own statement that your meetings have been during the past 2 years. LOL!
@@brooksanderson2599 Exactly my point.
Miami Beach is kinda like America's own version of Venice.
pretty bullet lmaooo
pretty bullet actually that's New Orleans it's barely above sea level in some parts. And some of New Orleans is already a few feet below sea level.
Fort Lauderdale is known as the Venice of America
They don't have algie bloom
pretty bullet except that Venice is not built on land, it’s built in pilings.
🎓🎓 “When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.” 🎓🎓
When you fail to mention that Miami Beach is SINKING, you lose credibility.
Florida and the East Coast is a Rising Coast Line. Please Dispute this with DATA from Tectonic Plate Maps...
Yea all coastal cities approaching a day of reckoning.
David Klimmek At least, most are wealthy enough to fix it
@@MiniM69 well many are not too.
@@alexanderfederowicz Miami is built on unstable ground you fucking idiot, this is not related to tectonic plates.
Good to see a mayor that is this strongly committed to helping his city. The jackasses who run our city are more concerned with building new, fancier office buildings for themselves and their staff then fixing anything as mundane as sewer systems and water drainage.
+mrbr549 It also says that the problems connected to climate change ARE solvable.
Terry Long tsunami ill give it 10 seconds
The kinds of technological innovations required to save the entire state of Florida from storms in higher sea levels would cost more than everyone simply moving inland and building new homes.
Say goodbye to Florida.
At Andrelina: Florida needs to be saved. It would seem less entertaining to see Florida beneath the waves, if Justin Bieber would choose to live in your city, let alone neighbourhood.
Yeah, perhaps he cares about them, or he just doesn't want the source of his greenies going underwater.
"Ocean Levels Rising" is more convenient to talk about than "Land Subsidence" Or "Beach Erosion" - which is what they have to pay for.
What's the difference between the State of Florida and the Lost City of Atlantis?
About a year.
Hahahahaha
Totally different. Each place that was done wrong and it's people will be destroyed.
They should just build a 100 meter wall
LOL
>4 years ago
Yup, aged like milk
cant build a tall building on limestone that deteriorates , i wouldnt wanna live in anything higher than 2 or 3 stories
Well isn't this ironic
No Name It is indeed.
No Name why is it ironic?
SAMMY JUNG ............................................
No Name It's not you fucking idiot. It's a coincidence.
Sean Reilly why is it a coincidence? It was predicted based on probability, so hurricanes and such that hastens it is a part of the factor it will be underwater given time, Irma just proved it. What's the coincidence there?
As a Canadian, it's nice to see the mayor of a major American city not dismiss climate change as a "liberal scam"
Kinda hard when your streets are flooding everyday.. i am also canadian and wish there were more like this out there.
Jamie Bockmuehl Our president might.
But mayors of cities and governors of blue states don't.
- There has always been climate change. For the last 4000 years, the planet has been slowly slipping into the next ice age.
- When Canada was buried in a kilometres thick glacier, the continent below it flexed. Florida is currently experiencing the bounce back from the last ice age.
Aimless6 says:
"the planet has been slowly slipping into the next ice age..."
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There was a cooling trend up until 1910.
Since then, it's warming up to no end.
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GlobalWarming/images/giss_temperature.png
+allgoo19
The planet has been cooling for the last 8000 years and it will continue to cool for the next 100 000 years.
anthro.palomar.edu/homo/images/Pleistocene_temp_change_graph.gif
Whatever humans do, in a few million years it will all wash away.
My parents live in Miami on the waterfront. 3 years ago they remodeled their house and raised it up 7 feet with no basement. The contractors did a beautiful job, though super expensive, it is built to withstand flooding till 2100.
Need a boat?
Don't mean to be a downer but how will they commute without a boat? Maybe 20 years.
What does it look like? Has it changed?
How’s your parents place coping?
I love it when he said “as a major I had to become a hydrologist”. Way to go Mayor, I wish they were more like you
I've lived in South Florida (South Broward to be exact) for 4 years and I'm waiting for that awful news that South Beach has been devastated by a storm. It's going to happen. I don't understand why my friends insist on staying there. Yes, the beach and people are nice to look at but it's overcrowded, dirty, expensive, and it floods way too much.
the beach and PEOPLE are nice to LOOK at. LMAO this had me rolling, "the people are nice to look at"
They are living a pipe dream! No pun intended. That place will be abandoned by 2100. You can't out-engineer sea level rise.
If it were slower... most of Netherlands is well below sea level. WWII the Germans destroyed many of the levels causing severe flooding all over the place there. But it was slow sea level rise, this maybe sudden. And be a trickster at that, starting really slow and slightly delayed than what was expected.
Based on the research I have read, global famine will be the first most pronounce severity well before the sea level rises start making mass exodus of coastal areas further inland. The sea level rising will be getting kicked while already down on food shortages and famine.
aaronmizzou Correct for florida but in many places you can protect cities for 100 yrs or more. It is costly, but possible.
Not really. Every other coastal city is in the same boat as Miami. They won't get another 100yrs to fix it.
yeah but you can be stupid and think the sea is rising when it is NOT
exactly. Any sea wall that keeps the sea off the beach in one area will result in that water having to go somewhere else, and spreading onto another beach somewhere else in the world. It's totally selfish if you think that a sea wall is a long term solution, because it's not. It's just a solution for your city. I don't know if there is any real long term solution to the financial need to keep cities where they are.
RUclips shows this up after Miami building collapsed!!
Miami Beach is essentially a big sand bar. The only way to save it is to put a wall around it or to raise the land level. Miami Beach is dependant on Miami/Dade County which faces a similar problem. If Miami can't fix its problems then there is no point in trying to fix Mia mi Beach. The highest elevation in Dade county is less than 11 ft. (A hill in a park) It has the bay and Atlantic to the East and the Everglades to the West. The elevation drops off when you get to the Elerglades. Miami is built on a wide bar od Limistone (Karst?) that runs along the East coast of Florida. Miami has problems with salt water intrusion into the area where they get drinking water from. Miami Beach gets its water from the West like Miami does. It may take a century but south Florida is doomed. You never own beach front property. You just lease it from Mother nature. One day the lease will end.
Same with New Orleans.
You're doomed - 21 feet rise by 2070, with 7 - 8 ' coming by 2040 and 14' more coming between 2040 and 2070.
Goodbye Florida - you will be missed, but your legend will live on.
+Cherry Picker Guitars Hoping the new ice age will kick in before then. ;)
+Noah Gul The point is to warn and prepare people. No scientist claims to be 100% sure about anything but they need to tell us if there is potential danger ahead of us. Would you rather be ignorant and never know of what kind of possibilities there are? Jesus christ...
Areloe Fiezx Some people just want to bitch about stuff. If they are warned, they complain, if they say everything is a-ok, they complain, if they say nothing, they complain.
It makes them feel like they have a purpose, to complain.
Noah Gul It's not bullshit. Just because science isn't 100% doesn't mean it's bullshit. You expect scientists to *know* everything, they don't. They know enough and if the risk is there we should know. Fucking hell, man. You'd be the first one crying when something bad happens and you ask "why didn't you tell us".
Sea level in south Florida is rising at about 3mm/yr - the same rate a century ago. There is no evidence that CO2 emissions are having any effect. Expect 3 inches of rise by 2040.
5:22 lmao is he saying the flooding is good because it cleans the area?
It clears the area of poor people
He’s referring to the Spring Breakers from Baltimore, Chicago, Newark, and Compton who terrorize us every year
Could this be the reason for the Champlain Towers collapse?
too be fair there’s a bunch of reasons besides climate change that made it collapse like neglect and deregulations throughout the years but it’s definitely a factor :/
Their problems were identified even before that 2018 engineer's report. They just didn't want to spend the money on correcting the pool deck leakage, etc., and add in a little bit of Fl corruption and down it goes. However, now the pendulum is swinging the other way--watch out folks. It's going to get very expensive soon.
There were many factors in that collapse, and chief among them was the failure to remediate known, and increasing, deterioration when there was time. That, and faulty design and cheap-jack construction to begin with. You'll note that New York City has similar conditions to deal with- it's dead at sea level, and suffers land subsidence, yet it has dozens of skyscrapers built 80 and 90 years ago that are strong and healthy after all that time. You almost couldn't TEAR most of them down.
I lived in Miami late 70’s- the streets were flooding then. 3-4 feet
Yeah but only when it rained. I lived in Miami 1960-1991. This sunny day flooding caused by high tides was unheard of then.
The mayor and city manager look like your classic mafia guys.
A Franca
Joe Peshi - goodfellas
That's because they are a bunch of thieves
My 2 yr son said Yeyah (Liar) to each one of them all on his own, how does he know politicians are liars!
Because he is.
Hey pizann...your very contused
I hope Florida becomes an _Atlantic City_ so we can get to have a new Amusement Park.
Atlantic City is in the same predicament as Miami.
The thing is: Florida used to be a huge mangrove swamp which helped maintain sea levels through natural processes, but since humans made cities on top of those swamps, those natural processes don’t operate and now sea levels are rising.
Miami Condo Collapse 2021 was devastating!
We Dutch are pretty good in stopping the sea from flooding the land ...... but even we are already working on backups like floating houses and roads in case the current sea-defences are overwhelmed.
wise
this is the most Atlantic vid I've seen on this channel
Prayers for Miami and everyone in Jesus name Amen 🙏
Ironic watching this now after building collapse in Miami. This was predicted 5 years back.
BUT MARCO I THOUGHT YOU SAID CLIMATE CHANGE ISNT REAL!
Sometimes people dont think it is til there forced to relize it, i mean before the guy was mayor he probably didnt relize the problems the city faced..
Its also kinda hard to deny the water actually physically rising every year... i mean its not like the goverment is making the oceans rise in order to make global warming a thing...
MazariegoS man made climate change isn't
John Gil says:
"MazariegoS man made climate change isn't"
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It is, man-made.
Research funded by Koch brothers,
www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/opinion/the-conversion-of-a-climate-change-skeptic.html
Excerpt,
"How definite is the attribution to humans? The carbon dioxide curve
gives a better match than anything else we’ve tried. Its magnitude is
consistent with the calculated greenhouse effect..."
it's not otherwise all coasts would be gone stop being stupid and do some reaserch
I was thinking of buying a condominium apartment in Miami Beach as a vacation home. The more I'm researching about rising sea levels in Miami beach, the less the % chance of buying an apartment in Florida goes. I'm not only thinking about my enjoyment as a vacation home but for my family and my future kids/grand kids using that apartment and how it'd affect them.
Maybe consider Chicago? Unlike other cities like NYC and LA, Chicago will be largely unaffected by climate change. Even though Lake Michigan isn't an ocean, the view is still fantastic from the many high rises and skyscrapers in Chicago. Downtown Chicago is fantastic and the Lakefront is just as great as the Miami Beach
@@alexg7705 please respond ik this is 5 years later but what about crime? Is it bad as people say?
Miami is still there! I'll report back in another 5 years. Back in the 70s, they predicted the coastlines would have flooded by now. It hasn't happened 😅
Dream on!
Got 3 more years...
Now what says you?
@@GMarieBehindTheMask pretty much the same. What people fail to understand is it's much the same with many coastal cities. If you watch movies of Miami back in the 1920s, you'll understand it was basically a chain of small islands & swamp that they reclaimed with concrete, sand and other backfill. It's been sinking for years. This event happened due to shoddy engineering, bad construction shortcuts and likely BRIBERY of city building inspectors. But hey, go ahead and blame the collapse of the condo bldg on "global warming" if you like. I'm sure plenty of true believers well be doing so regardless of what investigators find anyway 😉
What does it look like by the water? Has it changed? Genuinely asking.
Whether or not someone understands climate change is one of the litmus tests I use to determine if they are weak minded or not. I am always intrigued when someone states that they don't believe in climate change. Who cares? It is not up to the individual to decide what established facts they believe.
This came up in my reccomended right before irma and it was uploaded 1 year ago.......
Me too
Rob Cof hey me too
Same
They'll be doing the shopping in scuba gear and still deny the oceans are rising.
How about quit building on top of swamp. I see Atlantic ocean every day and the water line is where it was 50 years ago.
Same here on the Gulf Coast
You sure about that Pete?
@@kofthebaskervilles sure am. You want me to go back and check for you? Its only 3 miles away.
They're building on the water now lol
Same thing in Bangladesh, sea level is "rising" because swamps are developed.
We’re not in the same boat. Condominiums built at sea level right on the beach are in danger of being swept down into the ocean. The condo people are going to trade their cars in for boats.
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Growing marijuana will help. Each hemp plant requires 5 litres of water EVERYDAY and absorbs 5 Times more carbon dioxide than other plants. It will help.
Ramesh Hansa Ravendra Except that salt water kills most vegetation. Planting more mangroves might help but this probably isn’t feasible in the city.
Hahahahaha
@@52power nah you can't plant enough mangroves to lower sea level
@@wewuzkangzansheit3835 Agreed. But mangrove groves can help protect inland areas from tidal surges. They won’t stop water percolating up through the limestone in Florida but they can offer a lot of protection during storms. An added benefit is that they can support rich ecosystems and promote biodiversity.
Just spend ludicrous amounts of money to pipeline ocean water to the deserts
Lets hope Mar-O-Fucking Lago goes underwater first.
175 metres multiplied by cosine of let us say 10 degrees. That is three metres above sealevel. If the basement is immune to erosion, it will be flooded first.
_"175 metres multiplied by cosine of let us say 10 degrees. That is three metres above sealevel."_
Check your math there, bub. I know for a fact that a 3 degree slope is 1 in 20, and that would put it 9m-ish ASL. Wild guess is 10deg is in the range of 1 in 5, putting it 35m up.
Paolo Serragli You know what man FUCK YOU
Noah Atwood. Why do you want to have sex with him that's a bit gay
Gay is ok now. Consenting adults, leave them alone, they're not only harmless, they are net contributors. Our society would be worth less without them. It's the religious nuts we should make war on. They want everyone to stay in the insufferably fearful middle ages like them. When I see all those suits in the Oval office praising the maniac and chanting like tribal witch doctors, I'm just stunned.
If that is truly America, it deserves what ever madness that comes it's way.
Sea walls don't prevent salt-water intrusion and erosion from below, plus raised structures shift surface flood risk to unraised areas.
Can’t you just hear them all saying … “that will never happen in my lifetime”. Guess what? It is happening right now!
Is the water rising or is the surface understructure which is porous limestone still eroding like it was doing when I lived there 20 years ago?
And now a building collapse
Ironic documentary regarding the recent tragedy that took place .
Apparently unrelated from one another but okay.
Agenda 2030
I'm from Miami and this stupid outcry has been going on for years! Do you want to know how much the sea has actually risen, not one bit. I remember what it looked like 35 years ago when I was a kid playing on the beach and it's at the same exact level in since the 1980s and we're now in June 2019.
Chris Freely You believe in a flat earth, think I’m gonna take your opinion with a grain of salt.
@@chalmuns8571 I agree with 100% you shouldn't believe me or anyone. I'm not asking anyone to, believe me, I prefer if no one does and acquires the evidence for themselves. I believe nobody, show me evidence first.
@@chalmuns8571 ruclips.net/video/e82smfcypUc/видео.html
This is related to land erosion, not sea levels. Miami is sinking while the sea barely rises, this is what happens when you build on top of a fuckin swamp.
You are correct. In fact, if you look at actual data from NOAA, who has been tracking sea levels for the past 150 years, oceans have raised naturally but only at the very limited rate of 12" in 100 years. It is a natural cycle (up and down, cold and hot) that has been ongoing for thousands of years. But the AOC's or Gretta's of the world don;t want people to know that because there's no money to be made by fueling people's fears the other way.
🚫🤔 🌿🌱🌴 They should plant mangroves plant to protect the coastal part of Miami Beach so they would be no land erosion
They are ripping the last of them out to build the sea walls
IN THE FUTURE,
THERE IS NO
MIAMI BEACH !
😐
I lived in South Florida and sorry a big part of the problem is OVER-BUILDING and ripping up the natural barriers. The mangroves and reefs need to be restore and sorry to say alot of the land will have to reverted to it natural state. What they are doing are stop gaps because in the event of a hurricane the damage will be phenomenal.
Not the best time to have suggested this video RUclips...
Let's build a little closer to the ocean
Miami was doomed when developer built it on land that is only inches above sea level and never considered the fact that the sea level has been rising 6 inches per century for over a thousand years.
Add to that the subsidence caused by them channeling water that was feeding the aquafer AND the weight of the building, and there isn't any chance it could survive without major work.
If Miami wants to survive, they need to start dredging the sea and putting the soil on top of the land that is there. The streets have to be rebuilt periodically anyway, so they need to build them up about 2 to 3 feet every time they surface them. Fix door ways so that they have covered and protected steps and raise the land around the building.
Otherwise, yes, it is doomed to be permanently flooded within a few centuries, UNLESS the next little ice age lowers the water levels.
Remember that Florida doesn’t have state income tax.. that’s really expensive. They rely on tourism for taxes and if sea level rise messes that up they will have to either abandon or tax like crazy.
American Logic: We have hurricanes and floods, so let's build a HUGE CITY right where it can flood :D
Mr.BaldPity almost every countries logic*
I'm pretty sure Los Angeles was founded before we had as an advanced understanding of weather as we do now.
Edit: I mean MIAMI
You stupid fuck these cities were established before we had knowledge of how bad the flooding can get. Ignorant shithead
Hold on, water, food, good trade since it's close to the shore. Perfect for the 17-1800s! Oh no now it's 200 years later and there is flooding that we couldn't predict and hurricanes we couldn't even know how and what caused!
"American logic" but isn't that like EVERY COUNTRY THAT HAS ACCESS TO THE OCEAN
The only thing that kept it from going under water before was the rich people getting sand poured. I heard this years ago that it would disappear because they can no longer afford the sand.
Start moving. Accept the inevitable, you cannot keep raising the roads leading people to believe otherwise is wrong. The world has been warming and cooling since inception. Spending decades trying to believing otherwise was not helpful.
And yet, they’re probably still building in Miami.
Underwater by the end of the century? It might be underwater three days from now.
South Florida is one of the fastest growing spots of condominiums on the planet. Banks wouldn't be funding this growth if it were true. Banks aren't in the business of funding projects that will be under water in 10 years.
They probably think they will get paid back still. Perhaps they deny climate change.
@@acutechicken5798 yea that whole probably think theory is not used when billions are involved. They know the water is not rising. Probabky reason they are billionaires, becsuse they aren't easily tricked out of their money.
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People aren't logical. Oil companies knew about climate change since the seventies, and made sure nothing would get done. Sure, it killed millions of people. Sure, it will wipe out humanity if nothing is done, but they cared more about money.
@@acutechicken5798 are you talking about the 4 seasons? First it was called global warming, now its climate chsnge, maybe it will be called winter. You do know the people behind climate change is trying to tax the air you breathe, it will make oil companies look like change in a ash tray.
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Climate is getting warmer. I can see it where I live, snow melts earlier in the year. In other countries, like Finland, the years are getting warmer too. Spring comes earlier.
The water is coming in want it or not. Best thing to do is work with it and not against it, open the city, let the water in just imagine the architectural opportunities of having a city with system of accesible canals open to the ocean and applying everything we've learned from other similar cities around the world. Water cannot be blocked in this case, we must work with it.
I just wonder how long sea walls will last, you can go higher and higher but as sea level rises it will start eroding the bottom of the sea walls, so you will have to make the walls deeper and deeper, and it will be a massive battle of increaseing the height and decreasing the depth of the seawalls.
The seawall won't do anything, the water will sweep back under through the Biscayne aquifer
Ask the Dutch , this is like plunging a stab wound in the heart with a bandaid .
hmmm, wonder what caused the glaciers to melt thousands of years ago... vehicle exhaust?
That was caused by increased solar activity, causing a release of CO2 and methane from oceans and ground. Basic climate science will tell you that if you increase temperatures, carbon from oceans and permafrost will be released increasing temperatures, which themselves increase temps. It's called a positive feedback loop. Naturally, carbon was only released by the aid of an external factor, like increased solar activity or a decrease in aerosols. However, us humans have been released carbon into the atmosphere ourselves, causing warming without the aid of the sun or aerosols.
www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2013-05-ice-ages.amp
How about stop building high rise and stop concrete every piece of grass land
It looks like that now but if you notice once every building is done theres hundreds of trees around it especially in downtown. Ionno bout the rest of florida but our mayor cant do much about it eithwr
They'll build highrises on top of your head, cause your enormous brain will hold em
They have got to accept the fact that you're going to have to move these damn people back away from the coastlines. This is just the beginning and sooner or later no insurance company will accept the economic risks and will no longer insure those buildings
@AllegedPhilo First time looking yourself in a mirror?
Yes Miami is doomed as is all of Florida😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
1/4 of my country is below sealevel almost 7m at some places but no floats coming in here.
Greetings from the Netherlands
I’ve been thinking, which is very dangerous for me, but it seems to me that there is an increasingly bigger problem with lesser and lesser clean drinking water. So may I suggest that scientists come up with a way to purify ocean water, take that technology and share it with the other countries that are in desperate need of drinking water and irrigation for farming.
One way that I can think to do this,(purifying sea water) is by using the same way nature does it, evaporation. Create machines that take in sea water, heat it so it evaporates and collect the sweat caused by the evaporation of the sea water. Just a thought.
I like your "just a thought". You make a very valid point.
usmale 49 thank you
Stephen Coplen - Just Google for examples of converting seawater to potable water. Individuals and companies have been working and building systems for years. But the systems are expensive.
The real long term issue now is dealing with corrosion of building structures due to water.
"It's never been done before" after exactly describing Louisiana.
Well, yes. Surf side condo just collapsed last week from column failure due to corrosion. 22 dead 121 others buried and likely dead after 1 week in a pancake collapse. Now a second building has been evacuated because of structural issues making it unsafe. Same thing. Rebar column corrosion from salt water/atmosphere. Others to follow. This disaster has just begun.
Well I think it’s already doomed seeing what happened with the building collapse 💀
With the rate money is coming in to miami, they are going to build themselves to the sky. In the future, America drowns, but Miami is a cloud floating city.
Who's here during hurricane Irma?
Yourboi Boi me this just showed up in my recommended
The mangroves that were cut formed the barrier island and protected it;once the mangroves natural barrier was cut there was no protection.They need to plant more dune protective foliage and more mangroves to support erosion.
If the ocean does anything to you or to property, it's hard to feel bad or sad. It's the ocean, it'll always win
miami was doomed the day Crockett and Tubbs left.
Why don't we just push it somewhere else?
The problem is that 120 years ago Miami Beach was a tidal mangrove area. Developers in the early 20th century pumped dirt and sand into the mangrove to create an artificial island. So by it's very nature, Miami Beach was always going to be very susceptible to any sea level rise. Not sure how you can save it.
Let the ocean reclaim it.
Whoever's got a beach side condo better watch out
Please save one of the best places on earth.
That is 100% NOT miami
Dover it’s called an opinion
What a shame- Miami is such a beautiful city. I love that place- love the charming Deco district, and the way the city looks when seen from a plane circling to land at dusk. I love the friendly people,the "pink" quality of the city and its air of hedonistic abandon. But I wouldn't invest a dime in it. The 20 mile sea wall is a huge waste of resources and will do no good, because not only will the water go around it, but the water will keep seeping up from below through the porous karst. The only thing that enables all the development there now, is the National Flood Insurance Program, that steeply subsidizes flood insurance in flood-and-storm prone areas. Another inch sea level rise, and there will be no way to get insurance, or a mortgage. I predict that will happen in 15 years or less.
Gotta love the way we humans keep thinking we can control the force of nature. Now I know sometimes it has to be done, but that doesn't necessarily make it doable, unfortunately.
People. I building collapsed in Miami Florida 3 days ago.
This has been known for years the media is just now starting to tell about it. The government of Florida Miami knew about this for years when I say years I’m talking about over 20 years this has been known what’s going on in South Florida. And just to be Blunt. Florida is a peninsula it is a small type of Everglades from Jacksonville to the keys Miami central Florida is sinking. I’ve lived in Florida my whole life born and raised in South Florida this is the issue that has been known about for over 20 years. It’s time to get out of South Florida and Florida in all
"We're going to build a wall"
A tall wall🤣🤣
MIAMI BEACH CONDOS ARE SOOOOO DANGEROUS!!!