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Coastal American cities that never used to be flooded face staggering new risks as seas rise.
Salinization of the Mekong Delta is threatening the rice harvest and pushing a move toward a new crop: shrimp.
From the NY Times Dot Earth blog
"Storms are getting more powerful, and the current scientific thinking is that’s going to continue…. We are not coordinated at different levels of government, and time is running out."
Miami is drowning while the powers that be look away
Low-lying south Florida, at the front line of climate change in the US, will be swallowed as sea levels rise. Astonishingly, the population is growing, house prices are rising and building goes on. The problem is the city is run by climate change deniers
The Ghost of Sea-Level Rise Future? October’s King Tide had pedestrians wading through knee-deep water in Miami Beach, says public radio station WLRN.
Scientists disagree over whether climate change is altering hurricanes. It is impossible, when looking at one storm, to know whether global warming had an impact, but researchers see a trend.
-Erika Spanger-Siegfried on “The Equation” blog at the Union of Concerned Scientists
-William Hardin, professor of real estate at Florida International University, in the Miami Herald
