Yeah, Miami Might Be In Trouble

In another 120 years.

Miami should begin ‘preparing for evacuation’ due to climate change, Berkeley professor argues
Daniel Aldana Cohen and Samantha Schuyler provided arguments regarding the question “Should We Start Preparing for the Evacuation of Miami?” in a piece for The Nation on Friday.

Miami is at an elevation of 2 meters. Over the past 110 years, sea level there has risen about 2.5 millimeters per year. It’s “accelerating” by 0.008 millimeters per year.

Worst case, water will be up 1 foot in about 120 years (with another 6 feet to go before it submerges. Which would be much less than it rises for a passing hurricane already.

So basically, we’ve got 800 or so years before the city makes like Atlantis and sinks beneath the waves.

That clearly calls for spending hundreds of billions to evacuate half a million people now.

Yep, those UC Berkeley sociology professors are real good at reading charts and doing basic math.

 

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