Researchers are reporting in the journal Science that climate change is happening faster than what was forecast. What we thought would take 20,000 is going to happen in 100 years if we don’t take serious action. Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change by Connor Nolan1, Jonathan T. Overpeck2,1, Judy R. […]
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Rising Seas and Declining Infrastructure
Miami’s Other Water Problem — If a coastal neighborhood will have to be abandoned anyway, is it worth spending money on new sewers? “People will hang on with their fingernails to keep what they’ve got,” Stoddard says. “But who’s going to move here? And that’s what’s going to kill us.” — Read the whole thing. […]
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Flood Risk and Real Estate Values
The risk of floods increasing do to human induced climate change is affecting real estate values. Though the risk is increasing in all flood zones, coastal areas are already feeling the pain. Most homeowner’s don’t know about flood insurance until they need it. Then, it is too late. Bloomberg News reports: Recent research confirms that […]
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Shorefalling Rainstorms
i have been reading of the floods in kerala (india, southwest) and i just realized it isn’t just sea level rise and storm surge these shorefalling rainstorms a) pick up huge amounts of water off the ocean b) drop it inland as they come ashore c) all that water has to get out thru existing […]
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Extreme Weather Events Getting More Extreme
The U.N. has released a report entitled, “Extreme Weather Continues in 2018 – a Continuing Call to Climate Action”. Addressing the dangers associated with extreme weather conditions, the Executive Secretary of the UN Climate Change Patricia Espinosa said: “We must keep an eye on the future. As the superstorms and monsoon flooding of last year […]
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Flood Losses
South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia and Florida because of sea level rise flooding from 2005 to 2017. ” Florida: -$5.42 billion South Carolina: -$1.11 billion North Carolina: -$582 million” https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/science-technology/article215476785.html https://www.floodiq.com/ https://b.floodiq.com/methodology https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11113-018-9473-5 https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs11113-018-9473-5.pdf Boston climate risks: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/30/waterfront-real-estate-in-boston-rises-in-the-face-of-stronger-storms.html
Flood Insurance Rates Rising
“your flood insurance premiums could rise up to 18 percent each year” A recent article in the Miami Herald reports: “FEMA confirmed to the Miami Herald that it is looking into switching to risk-based pricing in 2020, which would end the subsidies most coastal communities enjoy on their flood insurance premiums and show the true […]
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Rising Sea Level and the Internet
In a study published by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, authors concluded the infrastructure of the Internet is at risk due to global warming and rising sea levels. “Thousands of miles of buried fiber optic cable in densely populated coastal regions of the United States may soon be inundated by rising seas….” “Most of the damage […]
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Climate Change Hammers US Coasts
In a report published by NOAA, the 2017 nation‐wide average annual frequency of high tide flooding hit an all‐time record. If high tide flooding in 2018 follows historical patterns, flooding will be most common during the winter (Dec‐Feb) along the West Coast and the northern section of Northeast Atlantic Coast in response to winter storms […]
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Can You Weather The Whether?
Sidd says: i can’t believe anybody is moving to the coast. But apparently some people like throwing their money into the ocean. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-23/the-latest-climate-threat-for-coastal-cities-more-rich-people paper on Miami Dade climate effect on real estate appreciation the higher the better… paper is at http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aabb32#supplementarydata may affect us at some point. lets b careful not to post more than […]
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