> Climate change is not contributing to the current situation of Miami being flooded
What is that based on?
> The floods are worse this year ...
Everyone in the article is talking about long-term increases in sea level rise and flooding.
* a University of Miami study reporting that Miami Beach has seen a 200 percent increase in flooding in the last decade
* current (conservative) estimates predict a three-foot rise over the next 100 years
* The city is already elevating its roads
* the city’s new hydraulic pumps, installed as a result of initiatives by Miami Beach’s mayor Philip Levine
* Steps are being taken, buildings are being raised
* what they’re [developers are] doing now is elevating the building at a minimum of 3 feet
* The water will start coming up from the floor,” he [Alan Faena] said. “There’s not much we can do. That’s the reality.”
* the Rockefeller Foundation recently funded Miami's “resilience officer,” the first of many in what the foundation expects to be a global array to help organize various cities' responses
What is that based on?
> The floods are worse this year ...
Everyone in the article is talking about long-term increases in sea level rise and flooding.
* a University of Miami study reporting that Miami Beach has seen a 200 percent increase in flooding in the last decade
* current (conservative) estimates predict a three-foot rise over the next 100 years
* The city is already elevating its roads
* the city’s new hydraulic pumps, installed as a result of initiatives by Miami Beach’s mayor Philip Levine
* Steps are being taken, buildings are being raised
* what they’re [developers are] doing now is elevating the building at a minimum of 3 feet
* The water will start coming up from the floor,” he [Alan Faena] said. “There’s not much we can do. That’s the reality.”
* the Rockefeller Foundation recently funded Miami's “resilience officer,” the first of many in what the foundation expects to be a global array to help organize various cities' responses