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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
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.
Archive that, it’s gonna vanish soon.
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.
Projections for when though?
- 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)
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.
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).
I could have posted what 2m looks like but at this scale it just looks like current Florida.
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.
I grew up a little south of Myakka. A meter rise still puts most of the area under some water. Half a meter put my childhood home in a shallow moat, since it was raised a bit from surroundings.
Maybe you’re right, this won’t be a full time map. But it definitely will be seasonal and difficult to live in
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.
your edit was so stealthy if befuddled even the formatter
Right? I was wondering how I got a hanging indent. That could legit be useful
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?
2025 is in less than 60 days. Much sooner than that would be like tomorrow.
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.
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
Climate change isn’t real, it’s the democrat water machines they have in the ocean to punish red states, dummy.
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.
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.
Certainly that’s a big part of problems, as is the collapse of the currents, and so on, sadly.
And this is how we can turn Florida blue.
Party in the city where the heat is on all night, on the beach 'til the break of dawn
Wlblblmbl mblmb blmvlbdlbl abl mlblbl
Under the sea!
Wlblblmbl mblmb blmvlbdlbl abl mlblbl
Reminds me of this 2 second SFX https://youtu.be/qMPpnCvCZvw
Just seeing the pic, I could hear the sound.
Damn democrats and their sea machine!
Hurricane machines in 2024 and now this!?
/S
Miami Heat will have to change their name to Miami Moist.
Miami damp
I’d much prefer the Floridians stay in Florida. We need to stop climate change before the Floridians move in next door.
they might go down with the ship
Please tell me all the trump real estate is under water
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.
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.
Financially? Always has been.
Build! A! Wall!
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.
Cape Coral will certainly be living up to its name.
This map fails to depict unfathomably massive amount of seaweed that the ocean is going to push in. The ocean doesn’t stop pushing in, ever. The shit will be 100 feet high.
that will be a fun new tourist attraction
I was recently in the Yucatán and their tourist season is basically driven by seaweed these days because it grows so much in the warmer temps. In summer the beaches are covered in rotten seaweed and no one wants to travel there. I imagine Florida will start to experience this as well.
It’s already happening. I’ll never go back to Florida.
Ocean: “your land, my choice”
Good, fuck Florida!
Orlando not under water. Clearly God hates humanity.
