Sunday, November 6, 2011

Sea Level Rise and South Florida

The title link is to an article in the Ledger from Lakeland Florida, and provides some first hand insight into what is expected in in the Miami area, and the Everglades. A couple of paragraphs from the article:

"If things continue as predicted, the bottom floors of the hotel where we were meeting would be part of Biscayne Bay — well offshore in Biscayne Bay — by the turn of the century.

And even the parts of Dade County that aren't underwater will be uninhabitable because the rising sea level will have made much of the Biscayne Aquifer, the shallow aquifer that supplies drinking water in this part of Florida, too salty to drink."

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