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Humans are unequivocally warming the planet, and that’s triggering rapid changes in the atmosphere, oceans and polar regions, and increasing extreme weather around the world, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns in a new report.
Wonder what this report does to real estate values in coastal Florida?
Well, if they’re Republicans it’s business as usual.
Increases the valuation of houses inland from current coastline.
Keep ignoring mama nature cons, she can keep dishing it out longer than you can keep bailing out.
All this so the 100+ year old energy infrastructure can continue to profit and not change.
I am not sure if you are replying, Dr. Kopp, but how concerned is the climate research community about methane release from thawing tundra and melting clathrates? Similarly, did this summer’s PNW heat wave confirm any behavior on cloud formation / albedo effects?
Two nights ago the city of Omaha had flooding in the streets from a fast downpour. A regular occurrence as I understand it because of more watering in the atmosphere.
And, I hope I am not breaking rules of this discussion by recommending what we individually can do about it besides continuing to fight ignorant Republicans. Read Doug Tallamy’s etymology professor at Univ of DE, book- “Nature’s Best Hope”.
Get rid of your grass and plant natives with long roots that returns water to the earth. If Omaha had had more native plants, perhaps less water would run into the flooding streets or into basements.
And, there is some evidence, more research is needed and happening, temperatures of the raging fires in CA is higher because of the nonnative fauna. We know natives survive fires and.Native Americans used annual controlled fires to preserve grasses for Buffalo. Just saying.
Not much impact so far, it will come later. People want to live near the ocean and the major impacts of sea level rise haven’t hit yet. Many people living in those beachfront condos are retired, so there is a constant rotation of new buyers who aren’t thinking in terms of a long-term investment to hand down to their kids. They want their time in the sun, and they’ll buy those places until the water is actually flooding the ground floors.
Also, not all of coastal FL is near sea level. The house we sold in Miami before moving to the PNW was very close to Biscayne Bay, but up on the Miami limestone ridge, maybe 15 feet above sea level? It can go up to 25 feet in some places. It might be 75 years or more before that’s waterfront property. Meanwhile Miami Beach will be underwater. So it’s going to affect areas differently, not just swamp everything uniformly.
But the Cons can outlast the effects, and that’s all they are concerned about. This is something for their children and grandchildren to deal with, so…{yawn}.
DeSantis is busy working on laws to prevent private companies in Florida from taking actions to mitigate climate change /s
More seriously, I don’t see how this doesn’t depopulate much of Florida by the end of the century. With rising sea levels and more intense hurricanes, I’m not sure all that beachside property in Florida is going to be very appealing.
The brackish areas, where there is the push and pull between saltwater and fresh water, how does this affect them?
Probably not snark at all. I’d be surprised if he doesn’t do this.
This latest report is getting considerable attention in the MSM this morning. Will it help? Dunno. I’ll be dead and buried inside of a decade if not before.
I’ve said this before: I learned about global warming decades and decades ago in jr high school. The “greenhouse effect” was a great analogy for kids. We got it, watched it come to pass.
In the 70s the fossil fuel industry hired PhD’s to set up Potemkin village
“scientific study” groups to publish stories minimizing global warming.
American corporations can’t think beyond the next 2 fiscal quarters. Claiming a catastrophe in 50 years to them is way too far out for them to consider or plan for. Today’s profits are king!!
There are myriad strategies which have to be coordinated to deal with our Climate crisis. The difference between the political parties is that, to the GOP, there are myriad messaging strategies which have to be coordinated to fight efforts to deal with our Climate crisis.
…and most of those lie in lobbying and messaging.
Unless and until said ridge slides into the ocean. 
I concur. The first Earth Day was in spring 1970…the Other Side has been well funded.
With respect to the attention this is now getting in the MSM:
In a rational world it would double the membership of the Democratic Party
Development will continue unabated, because that’s who funds the legislature. In fact, big developers tromp on the small developers, both of whom contribute. (Weird thing, I’ve had small developers complain to me about not getting a fair shake. Amazing display of the food chain.) Sometimes I wonder, what the hell are they thinking? Maybe it’s the greater fool theory, with the hedge fund backers living in Chicago or Denver.
More areas paved over, with a few crumbs tossed to environmentalists. I love Florida and many of the people in it, but man-o-man I despair for that state.
If you mean South Florida, the saltwater wins because the bedrock is porous limestone. The Everglades will gradually change from the fresh water “sea of grass” with sawgrass and Cyprus stands, to saltwater mangrove swamp like the current southern and southwestern edge of the 'Glades.
Saltwater intrusion will win in the lower built-up coastal areas too. You can’t build a seawall to keep the ocean out when the salt water will just rise up underneath you.
Rubio does not fit the image of an out and out caveman anti-environmentalist.
No…he is simply in a race for Most Cowardly Member of the U.S. Senate.