How Far Will Sea Levels Rise? In Miami, They Drew Lines On The Pavement To Find Out |
By: By Terrell Johnson
Published: November 20, 2013
Sea Level Rise in Miami Beach
A woman rides a bike along the chalk outline
showing how far inland 3 feet of sea level rise would reach in Miami
Beach, Fla. (Courtesy Jayme Gershen/High Water Line)
But in a place like Miami, numbers like those will make a huge difference in the lives of the more than 5 million people who live there – in fact, whether they'll be able to live there at all.
Visualizing what this future might look like – and sparking conversations about it on the street – is what New York artist Eve Mosher, project co-director Heidi Quante and some 300 volunteers had in mind last week, when they laid down 26 miles of chalk lines through the streets of downtown Miami and Miami Beach.
It was all part of the latest installment in the High Water Line project, which started in New York City back in 2007 and aims to show how rising sea levels will impact life in major cities like Miami, Philadelphia and London this year and next.
“It’s really like a very large performance, with many different people, passing it off from one person to another," explained project co-coordinator Marta Viciedo. "And the communication, the dialogue that happens [when people ask] hey, what are you doing?"
The lines, drawn with a chalk line marker you'd find at a baseball field, show how far the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay would encroach if sea levels rose by 3 feet and by 6 feet, reflecting optimistic (and pessimistic) forecasts for sea level rise in Miami by 2100.
Following maps based on sea level rise analysis by Climate Central, the volunteers laid down chalk through historic neighborhoods like Little Havana and right up to the doors of both American Airlines Arena, where the NBA's Miami Heat play, and Marlins Park, the home of baseball's Miami Marlins.
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$900m Risk From Rising Sea Levels
#By RASHAD ROLLE
#Tribune Staff Reporter
#rrolle@tribunemedia.net
#RISING sea levels could cause the tourism industry to lose almost $900 million a year by 2050, says a research group.
#Sea
rise, surge or erosion could cause as much as 1,200 square miles of
Caribbean coastal land to be lost along with damage or destruction of
half of the major tourist resorts.
#A
report by the Inter-American Development Bank titled “Climate Change’s
Impact on the Caribbean’s Ability to Sustain Tourism, Natural Assets,
and Livelihoods” forecasts the destruction unless Caribbean governments
take action.
#Governments
must put up more than 200 miles of levees and sea walls to the tune of
almost $6 billion or the region will be in peril according to
environmental groups like CaribSave, a research partnership between the
Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) in Belize and Oxford
University in Britain.
#“With
80 per cent of the land lying less than one metre above sea level, all
sectors in the Bahamas are highly vulnerable,” says CaribSave.
#It warns that the tourism industry could face annual losses of almost $900 million by 2050.
#Dr
Ulric Trotz, Deputy Director and Science Advisor at the CCCCC, told Tim
Padgett, Americas Editor at WRLN, that when the Bahamian economy begins
to fail because of the loss to its industries, many residents will
begin seeking refuge in the USA.
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This is what Earth will look like if we melt all the ice
The maps here show the world as it is now, with only one difference: All the ice on land has melted and drained into the sea, raising it 216 feet and creating new shorelines for our continents and inland seas...........
There are more than five million cubic miles of ice on Earth, and some scientists say it would take more than 5,000 years to melt it all. If we continue adding carbon to the atmosphere, we’ll very likely create an ice-free planet, with an average temperature of perhaps 80 degrees Fahrenheit instead of the current 58.
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