Miami Will Likely Be Underwater Before Congress Acts on Climate Change

National Journal ^ | May 15, 2014 | Ronald Brownstein

[QT3.14]

Miami will likely be underwater before the Senate can muster enough votes to meaningfully confront climate change. And probably Tampa and Charleston, too—two other cities that last week's National Climate Assessment placed at maximum risk from rising sea levels.

Even as studies proliferate on the dangers of a changing climate, the issue's underlying politics virtually ensure that Congress will remain paralyzed over it indefinitely. That means the U.S. response for the foreseeable future is likely to come through executive-branch actions, such as the regulations on carbon emissions from power plants that the Environmental Protection Agency is due to propose next month. And that means climate change will likely spike as a point of conflict in the 2016 presidential race.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Detroit is under water right now. What difference does it make? /S

[Diogenesis]

Good thing that the DNC owns the US Patent
for carbon credits.

That will make them a LOT of money in this.

[Slings and Arrows]

So what’s the problem?

[QT3.14]

Hat Tip to Steven Goddard using the term Klimate Klux Klan for those trying to cram GW down our throats.

I guess that makes Gore the Grand Klimatologist?

[Ken522]

Miami will likely be underwater before the Senate can muster enough votes to meaningfully confront climate change.

.. and this is a bad thing WHY?

[x1stcav]

The hell with Miami! I’m holding out for Washington DC.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The beach will be a little closer now!

[M Kehoe]

Miami Will Likely Be Underwater Before Congress Acts on Climate Change

Thanks to Ron Brownstein for a good laugh. I needed that...

5.56mm

[A Navy Vet]

Cool. That may make my home on a hill waterfront property. Think I’ll contact a contractor about a small dock for my boat.

[chris37]

There’s a lot of democrats in Miami, so I am just fine with them going for a nice swim.

Any way we can speed it up?

[dalereed]

The sea isn’t going to rise you idiots!

[Candor7]

More Ku Klux Klimatology.

I can hardly wait to see them on the icebergs sailing up the Bay of Funday off shore Maine.

[kingattax]

"WE ARE DOOMED"

[HiTech RedNeck]

Thinking that maybe 1000 years from now Miami will probably see maybe a 10 foot approach of the high tide line... at most. During that time, normal demolition and rebuilding will have taken care of the issue.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Hell will likely freeze over before Miami is underwater.

[AppyPappy]

Of course it will.

[DocJhn]

Current sea level rise is about 3 mm/year worldwide. According to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 1/32nd of an inch!

[Milton Miteybad]

I'm willing to consider a carbon tax the minute its proponents are willing to offer a money-back guarantee. If we pass a carbon tax and Miami gets inundated anyway, the tax payments are rebated back to the taxpayers, with interest.

Never heard of a single one of these carbon tax chumps get behind my proposal, though. I wonder why...;-)

[Cementjungle]

Twenty-two billionaires—just shy of two percent of the world's total—have purchased units in a condominium tower being built in Sunny Isles Beach, a small city in Miami-Dade County. The 60-story Porsche Design Tower features the normal super-rich perks, including units as large as 17,000 square feet, and swimming pool- and kitchen-equipped balconies as large as 1,600 square feet.

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