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''"Coastal areas around the globe are losing ground to the sea faster than ever. Sea level rise looms as one of the greatest of all climate change challenges..."''


== Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Response ==


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''United States''


'''Adaptation Action Planning'''


'''Florida'''  
<big><big><u>'''[[Sea-Level Rise]]'''</u></big></big>


2013/2014/2015
<big><big><u>'''[[Climate News]]'''</u></big></big>


[http://grist.org/cities/miami-sea-level-rise-climate-change '''Miami is sinking already under rising sea levels''']


At the University of Miami’s Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Brian McNoldy and other researchers have been accumulating sea-level data from Virginia Key (a small island just south of Miami Beach) since 1996. Over those 19 years, sea levels around the Miami coast have already gone up 3.7 inches. In a post updated Monday, McNoldy highlights three big problems that follow from those numbers...
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Head in Sand


'''Mar 8, 2015''' [http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-03-08/florida-officials-say-they-were-banned-from-saying-climate-change-and-global-warming- '''Florida Officials Say They Were Banned From Saying 'Climate Change' and 'Global Warming'''']
Bloomberg Business


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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykzWhuS52wM&list=PLE57D4414FAA446C0 '''Rising seas in South Florida, PBS-2014'''] - [http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/south-florida-rising-sea-levels/ '''South Florida Rising Seas''' - PBS]


'''July 20, 2014''' [http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/energy/utilities-will-ask-psc-for-permission-to-gut-energy-saving-goals/2189192 Big Energy companies in Florida look to "gut energy savings goals"]
<big><big><u>'''[[Earth and Space, Politics]]'''</u></big></big>


In Florida, fossil fuel energy co's have their way in a pro-fossil fueled legis and w/ the gov. Today we read the energy co's are officially against renewables, incl solar in the "Sunshine State", claiming to the PSC that energy 'savings' are bad (for them) and then there's the 'if they can't grow, they'll die' argument (so pay more, use more, pollute more, greenhouse more, sea rise more, not to worry, bigger better, more better.) What's wrong w/ this picture?


[http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/florida-scientists-press-gov-scott-on-climate-change/2188637 '''Scientists petition the governor''']
<big><big><u>'''[[EarthPOV]]'''</u></big></big>


[http://southeastfloridaclimatecompact.org/pdf/Adap%20Action%20Areas.pdf '''Southeast Florida Climate Compact''']


[http://www.icleiusa.org/blog/archive/2013/03/25/broward-county-incorporate-climate-change-into-plans-targets-adaptation-action-areas '''Adaptation action-ICLEI model''']
<big><big><u>'''[[Earth Right Now]]'''</u></big></big>


[http://www.rcinef.org/AAAinFTL_CRWGmetting_040813.pdf '''Resiliency against sea-level rise''']


[http://www.csc.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/stories/slr '''NASA study of Southeast Florida Vulnerability to Sea-Level Rise''']


[http://sealevel.climatecentral.org/uploads/ssrf/FL-Report.pdf '''Florida and the Surging Seas, a Vulnerability Assessment''']


[http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/11/miami-drowning-climate-change-deniers-sea-levels-rising '''Miami in Deep''']
<big>'''Sea-level Rise Updates @ https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Sea-Level_Rise'''</big>


[http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/11/us/south-florida-faces-ominous-prospects-from-rising-waters.html '''South Florida Faces Ominous Prospects from Rising Waters''' / NYT]


[http://interactive.sun-sentinel.com/rising-seas/ '''Rising Seas: South Florida, Inching toward Disaster''']
<big><big>'''Migration Inland as Real Estate Speculation Shifts: Not Far from the President's Mar-a-Lago Club'''</big></big>


[http://www.energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/files/serve?File_id=e0f5e6f1-34f1-4bd9-8243-8b3c77e1d27d '''Florida - Impact of Sea Level Rise on Energy and Water''']
'''Barrier Island Blues'''


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''"Oh, Miami Beach is going under, the sea level is coming up," Harewood said. "So now the rich people have to find a place to live. My property is 15 feet above sea level, theirs is what? Three under?''


'''California'''
''One of the great ironies of historic housing patterns in Miami is that for decades under Jim Crow, laws and zoning restricted black people to parts of the urban core, an older part of the community that sits on relatively higher ground along a limestone ridge that runs like a topographic stripe down the eastern coast of South Florida. Now, many of those neighborhoods, formerly redlined by lenders and in some places bound in by a literal color wall, have an amenity not yet in the real estate listings: They're on higher ground and are less likely to flood as seas rise...''


'''Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Study''' - City of Los Angeles
''No one can turn a blind eye to the projections everyone uses in South Florida: 2 feet of sea-level rise by 2060.''


Over the next century, sea level rise in the Los Angeles (L.A.) region is expected to match global projections with an increase of 0.1 - 0.6 m (5 - 24 inches) from 2000 to 2050 and 0.4 - 1.7 m (17 - 66 inches) from 2000 to 2100. [http://www.usc.edu/org/seagrant/research/sea_level_rise_vulnerability.html]
''"Everybody I know that is a small owner of real estate that isn't within the billionaire class — average middle-class, upper-middle-class Miamians who have real estate on the beach — is in the process of selling their properties and moving to the mainland... Basically where the coral ridge is, just north of downtown and south of downtown, that's where anecdotally the most amount of speculative investment has been going in because historically that's been the highest ground."


Los Angeles critical coastal infrastructure at the Port of Los Angeles (Port) is approximately 10 ft above sea level. Under current conditions, some of this infrastructure is vulnerable to flooding during high tide events and severe storms. This flooding is expected to worsen as sea level rise contributes to increased total water levels. The Port is among the busiest in the world, contributing more than $63 billion to the State of California, and more than $260 billion to the U.S. economy. More than 40% of all imports arriving in the U.S. comes through the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, where it is loaded onto trucks and trains for overland shipping (Port of Los Angeles 2012)... [http://www.usc.edu/org/seagrant/research/SeaLevelRise_docs/hires_pdfs/City%20of%20LA%20SLR%20Vulnerability%20Study%20FINAL%20Online%20w%20appen.pdf]


San Diego -
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http://www.icleiusa.org/climate_and_energy/Climate_Adaptation_Guidance/san-diego-bay-sea-level-rise-adaptation-strategy-1


California regional - http://climate.calcommons.org/article/regional-strategies-sea-level-rise-adaptation


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'''New York City'''
''Mayors of 21 cities in Florida called on the moderators of presidential debates in Miami to ask candidates how they would deal with rising sea levels caused by climate change, a concern of the state's coastal communities.''


Post Superstorm Sandy, estimated $29 Billion plan sets stage for future [http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/04/storm-sandy-infrastructure-repe-idUSL5E8M2C8D20121104] [http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/201-13/mayor-bloomberg-outlines-ambitious-proposal-protect-city-against-effects-climate-change Mayor's Plan to Protect NYC] [http://www.nyc.gov/html/sirr/html/report/report.shtml A Stronger, More Resilient New York] [http://www.nycedc.com/resource/stronger-more-resilient-new-york] [http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-06-04/designing-a-manhattan-superstorm-barrier-that-fits-into-the-neighborhood Superstorm barrier for New York - June 4, 2014] [http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/building-13-mile-long-levee-manhattan-feasible-180951955/ 13 Mile Long Levee at tip of Manhattan]
''"It would be unconscionable for these issues of grave concern for the people of Florida to not be addressed in the upcoming debate you will be hosting in the state," the mayors wrote in an letter to CNN, The Washington Post, Univision and the other media outlets hosting the Democratic and Republican debates on March 9 and March 10 in Miami.''


In a settlement that could have far-reaching implications nationwide, New York’s largest utility is now responsible for preparing for a future of extreme weather, including the impacts of climate change. June 5, 2014 [http://earthdesk.blogs.pace.edu/2014/03/01/new-york-con-ed-settlement-sets-stage-for-climate-change-reform-by-power-utilities/#sthash.rtl8I0G7.dpuf]


[http://www.globalchange.gov/browse/sea-level-rise-tool-sandy-recovery NY/NJ Sea Rise Assessment 2013]
[http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/40073-as-seas-around-mar-a-lago-rise-trump-s-cuts-could-damage-local-climate-work <big>'''''Mar-a-Lago? Or Mar-a-Lagoon'''''</big>]


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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar-a-Lago Mar-a-Lago] sitting on a shifting [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrier_island 'barrier island'] in [https://www.mapquest.com/us/florida/business-palm-beach/the-mar-a-lago-club-261512353 Palm Beach], Florida


'''U.S.'''


[http://mashable.com/2014/07/16/cities-rising-sea-levels/ Ways Cities are Preparing for Sea-Level Rise]
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"Global sea-level rise (SLR) trends provide valuable evidence in preparing for future environmental change" explains a 2012 US NOAA report which goes on to say '''aside from this report, there is currently no coordinated, interagency effort in the US to identify agreed upon global mean SLR estimates for the purpose of coastal planning, policy, and management.''' --  [http://scenarios.globalchange.gov/sites/default/files/NOAA_SLR_r3_0.pdf '''Scenarios/NOAA/Nov 2012''']


Soon after this acknowledgment of a systemic lack of coordinated, interagency planning, a follow-on assessment is issued by "twelve contributing authors" from "ten different federal and academic science institutions." '''NOAA/Dec 2012'''


"A new sea level rise scenarios report has been released by NOAA's Climate Program Office in collaboration with twelve contributing authors from ten different federal and academic science institutions. The report, produced in response to a request from the U.S. National Climate Assessment Development and Advisory Committee, provides a synthesis of the scientific literature on global sea level rise, and a set of four scenarios of future global sea level rise."  [http://www.globalchange.gov/news/global-sea-level-rise-scenarios-united-states-national-climate-assessment Global Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the United States National Climate Assessment]
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'''Global'''
<big><u>'''[[Earth Science Research from Space]]'''</u></big>


[http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/14/sea-level-rise-unmatched-6000-years-global-warming Sea level rise over 6000 yrs]


[http://www.globalchange.gov/news US Gov initiates global climate change inter-agency coordination/risk assessment -- Global Change News and Updates]
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* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space Earth Imaging -- The Antarctic: Big Melt Accelerates]


• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News


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== '''Resilient Strategies for responding to sea-level rise''' ==


'''''Resilient Cities''''' - '''Resilient Communities


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[http://www.amazon.com/Against-Tide-Cornelia-Dean/dp/0231084196/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1401901597&sr=1-4&keywords=against+the+tide '''Against the Tide''' book by Cornelia Dean]  
 
[From Publishers Weekly]
 
An eloquent, forceful plea to save America's rapidly eroding beaches and coastline, this revelatory and disturbing report from the science editor of the New York Times is reminiscent of Rachel Carson's ''Silent Spring''...
 
[Review] Castles built on sand are doomed, they say. But in our hunger for an ocean view from the living-room window, we keep building things we expect to last on beaches that never stay still. In ''Against the Tide'', Cornelia Dean, science editor of The New York Times, outlines the global coastal management crisis and all the elaborate engineering methods developed to stave off erosion--revetments, sand-trapping devices, seawalls, groins and jetties, even artificial seaweed beds. In clear, journalistic style, she explains how all of these devices have failed to stop the inexorable march of the sea...
 
From the motels and T-shirt shops of beachless Florida "beach towns" to Los Angeles County, most of whose beaches are artificial, the story Dean tells is the same. People build on unstable landforms, then attempt to avoid the inevitable consequences through quick technological fixes: concrete seawalls, artificial reefs, sand-trapping steel groins, jetties, underground "dewatering" systems of pipes and pumps, etc. These techno-fixes may prolong the life of coastal buildings, but they usually accelerate erosion and environmental degradation...
 
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[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Inundation '''Not human caused''']
 
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"Coastal areas around the globe are losing ground to the sea faster than ever. Sea level rise looms as one of the greatest of all climate change challenges..."


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Sea-Level Rise

Climate News


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Earth and Space, Politics


EarthPOV


Earth Right Now



Sea-level Rise Updates @ https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Sea-Level_Rise


Migration Inland as Real Estate Speculation Shifts: Not Far from the President's Mar-a-Lago Club

Barrier Island Blues

"Oh, Miami Beach is going under, the sea level is coming up," Harewood said. "So now the rich people have to find a place to live. My property is 15 feet above sea level, theirs is what? Three under?

One of the great ironies of historic housing patterns in Miami is that for decades under Jim Crow, laws and zoning restricted black people to parts of the urban core, an older part of the community that sits on relatively higher ground along a limestone ridge that runs like a topographic stripe down the eastern coast of South Florida. Now, many of those neighborhoods, formerly redlined by lenders and in some places bound in by a literal color wall, have an amenity not yet in the real estate listings: They're on higher ground and are less likely to flood as seas rise...

No one can turn a blind eye to the projections everyone uses in South Florida: 2 feet of sea-level rise by 2060.

"Everybody I know that is a small owner of real estate that isn't within the billionaire class — average middle-class, upper-middle-class Miamians who have real estate on the beach — is in the process of selling their properties and moving to the mainland... Basically where the coral ridge is, just north of downtown and south of downtown, that's where anecdotally the most amount of speculative investment has been going in because historically that's been the highest ground."


Miami region sea level rise.gif


Mayors of 21 cities in Florida called on the moderators of presidential debates in Miami to ask candidates how they would deal with rising sea levels caused by climate change, a concern of the state's coastal communities.

"It would be unconscionable for these issues of grave concern for the people of Florida to not be addressed in the upcoming debate you will be hosting in the state," the mayors wrote in an letter to CNN, The Washington Post, Univision and the other media outlets hosting the Democratic and Republican debates on March 9 and March 10 in Miami.


Mar-a-Lago? Or Mar-a-Lagoon

Mar-a-Lago sitting on a shifting 'barrier island' in Palm Beach, Florida


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Earth Science Research from Space


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