Read More. Yes, the land is slowly sinking in parts of Florida, but the sea is rising much faster and poses a far greater threat of flooding by Kristina Dahl. March 19, Related Posts. October 2, The Business of Climate Change. August 30, August 17, Next Post. Twitter Facebook. About the Project. Tallahassee, the capital, is more than feet above sea level. Thus it will never go completely underwater, even if all the ice sheets and glaciers on the planet melt, since a total meltdown of all the ice sheets glaciers would raise sea level feet 65 meters.
That could take thousands of years, depending on how warm the planet gets. Of course playing the game of who is first in this situation is pointless and unproductive. We could examine each of the two dozen U. Every state on the Pacific, the Gulf of Mexico, and the East Coast has highly vulnerable low-lying areas, places you might not immediately think of, from Maine to Connecticut to the Carolinas, to the entire Gulf coast.
The same for each of the almost two hundred coastal nations. Rather than wondering who will submerge first, or most completely, our concern needs to be on how to slow the rising sea, by slowing the warming that is occurring due to the burning of fossil fuel. As rising seas encroach on the area—whether from storm surge or increasingly common sunny day floods —brackish, corrosive groundwater can get pushed up through the limestone, causing problems for structures.
Whether or not these factors were a factor, though, they could certainly threaten infrastructure in the future. Tragically, the Champlain tower was due for a year inspection soon, which could have shown it was at risk of falling in. With such dire threats afoot, officials may have to consider holding such inspections more often.
It may even be time to start moving people and infrastructure out of Surfside altogether, a fate that some areas are also already considering due to rising seas. The A.
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