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Democratic Party Presidential Candidates Debate in Miami

GreenPolicy360: In 2016, during all the US presidential debates, a climate policy question was asked, what, once? Tonight (June 26, 2019) the Democrats start the presidential campaign debate in Miami, even as the current US pres denies the big picture, the climate/global/atmospheric threat, the existential challenges, the national/state and local impacts. In Florida, the consequences of sea level rise are already VERY real.

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Sea-Level_Rise

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

Via the Tampa Bay Times / Florida could face $76 billion in climate change costs by 2040

• https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/us/miami-democratic-debates.html

No question is of more critical importance to Florida’s future, or to the Democrats’ chance to take the state in next year’s presidential election. It is so important that some activists had hoped that climate change would be the sole focus when 20 Democrats take the debate stage for the first time in this campaign on Wednesday and Thursday in downtown Miami.

Climate change is now among the top three 2020 election issues cited by Florida Democrats, according to a new statewide survey. Some 71 percent of Florida voters, including 85 percent of Democrats, support government action to address climate change, according to the survey by Climate Nexus in partnership with the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication, which polled 1,558 registered Florida voters online this month.

• https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/26/politics/democratic-presidential-debates-florida-climate-change/index.html

All of Miami Beach is low-lying, but parts are just a foot or two above sea level, making it prone to flooding during storms and extreme high tides, according to Miami Beach City Manager Jimmy Morales. Add the estimated 9 inches that sea levels have risen in the region in the past 100 years, and you have a recipe for costly flooding.

Then there is the problem of the very ground on which Miami Beach and much of South Florida sits. Made from the remnants of ancient coral reefs, the porous limestone beneath the region is not unlike Swiss cheese, with natural underground "pipes" that allow water to bubble up to the surface...

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