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    This post is misleading. This scenario will only happen after all the ice is melted in Antarctica causing a >200ft sea level rise, which would take at least a couple millenia of extreme global warming to happen. There will be beachfront property slipping into the sea by 2075 with a lot of ecological and economic consequences involved, the NOAA has given us a neat little tool for visualizing what’s to come. https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/#/layer/slr

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      Don’t forget all the extreme weather eroding away the peninsula. I’m less worried about sea level rise over the next 50 years than I am of a 20’ storm surge happening over the course of a few hours.

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      Thank you for the dose of reality. Of course it would be nice if Florida sank into the sea. But let’s try to stick to reality.

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      1. Sorry I had to do a ninja edit: the original post I stole this from didn’t have the text on the image, but was rather a retweet of text post with this image (e.g., nested post)
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        I see, the meme makes a lot more sense now. I was like this isn’t a meme it’s just a map of the future of Florida lol.

        That said this seems very extreme and exaggerated for 2075. Sea level rise is one of the slowest aspects of climate change. Generally the worst case is thought to be about 2 meters by 2100 which is significant but not enough to affect non-coastal areas.

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          For fun I did a quick check and based on GEBCO elevation data this looks like about 20m sea rise (I’m guessing exactly – I assume whoever made the image picked a round number).

          Hacked-together graphic showing Florida with sea level rise causing approximately the same coastline as the OP.

          I could have posted what 2m looks like but at this scale it just looks like current Florida.

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            20m is if I remember correctly about what the melting of the greenland glacier will cause, which is pretty much locked in already. It will not be 2075 for sure, but probably this millenium.

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            Oh to be clear 2 meters will absolutely devastate some areas. But it won’t look like entire counties inundated as we see in this map.

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        2075

        And likely much earlier.

        Due to the nature of science and how any predictions and projections it makes needs to be couched in exceedingly conservative tones, it has become a running gag in climate science that everything will happen “much sooner than expected”. Because invariably, it does. Sometime hundreds of years sooner than expected.

        Hell, it was first thought that the AMOC wouldn’t collapse for centuries, and now more accurate projections put it as being sometime between 2025 and 2085, with a “most likely due date” of some time in the early 2050s. And this is still an exceedingly conservative estimate. Who wants to bet that it’ll happen much sooner than even that?

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            2025 is in less than 60 days. Much sooner than that would be like tomorrow.

            My last reference was the 2050s “most likely due date”. That is bound to get revised radically towards the present, as more data is collected.

            And at the very least, that entire range is going to be compressed towards the present as well.

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            My understanding is we have evidence of slowdown but really don’t have the historical data to know when AMOC stops being driven, and it could take a century or two for the water to actually stop circulating.

            Some outrage headlines have claimed it’s already collapsed and I don’t know if we have data to disagree with that

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    Climate change isn’t real, it’s the democrat water machines they have in the ocean to punish red states, dummy.

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    Looking at the bright side, there will be lots of newly formed artificial reefs available for the remaining fish. Hoping those fish can find a way to adapt to the warmer waters though.

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      Warmer waters isnt the real problem (well i mean it is) its ocean acidifcation where coral and other marine creatures cant form carbonated calcium shells anymore causing a complete collapose of marine ecosystems.

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    Party in the city where the heat is on all night, on the beach 'til the break of dawn

    Wlblblmbl mblmb blmvlbdlbl abl mlblbl

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    Damn democrats and their sea machine!

    Hurricane machines in 2024 and now this!?

    /S

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    I’d much prefer the Floridians stay in Florida. We need to stop climate change before the Floridians move in next door.

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      Along the bottom right you’ll see West P[alm] Beach. That’s where Mar-a-lago is.

      Now by 2075 Trump will be dead, as will likely all of his children except the youngest ones like Baron who will be roughly Trump’s current age.

      This is also why many “current generation” folks don’t care about climate change. They will not be alive to see it, since people just don’t live that long.

      Basically none of those you hope will suffer the consequences of their actions will.

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        If we discover a method to obtain eternal life on this world, we should force Trump to be the first subject for him to experience the suffering he created.

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      Funny that just like the border wall, water, just like people and life, finds a way.

      I the case of Florida the water base will rise and cities will flood from within.