Miami Flooding/Underwater?
Is it likely that Miami and its artificial islands (such as Star Island and Hibiscus Island) will be completely flooded/ underwater as the sea levels rise within the next 100 years?
Also is it true that the sea levels really are going to rise by 3 feet in the next 100 years?
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No, and no.
Sometimes land in local areas sink, but the sea isn't going to rise in any meaningful way, so you can relax.
Unless you'd like to join the ranks of Chicken Little and Henny Penny, by all means, get as worked up about nothing as you'd like.
It's hard to be certain because eustatic change (sea-level rise/fall) is hard to predict accurately due to all of the factors involved. It's even worse than prediciting weather, and you know how meterologists suck at that. The further in time means even harder to predict. It is possible, however. One thing Miami has going for it is the surrounding swamp land. Swamp help buffer sea level rise. The more south Florida builds over the swamp area, the less effective it's going to be however... That's also bad for hurricanes. I can tell you from first-hand experience that sea level rise is real and drastic. I visited a house that my family owns in Nags Head, VA. My grandfather was telling me how the intertidal zone (land between high and low tides) use to be hundreds of meters away from the house, as I am looking at a house on stilts with the waves splashing on them. It's quite possible that most of miami will be flooded in a few hundred years. I think the change will be slow enough to adapt however.
PS Obviously Liberato knows nothing of the science and/or doesn't live on a coast so is just ignorant on what happens. That's ok though, just be careful spouting crap you don't know about.
Somebody blew the conversion from metric to inches. The original statement was 40 millimeters but someone unfamiliar wit measurements changed it to 40 meters. The true measurement of 40 millimeters calculates to just under two inches increase in sea level over the next 50 years. So please do not panic like NASA currently is over a more serious situation.
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When sea level rises and falls with the seasons.
When the melting of floating ice changes the water level it is floating in.
When pigs fly.
It is a silly story made up by people who care nothing about reality.
more like ten years and to the first guy: let the pigs start growing feathers