Study: Global warming threatens Florida

[lovuian]

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=d2313e228b708452

A study of nine Florida coastal areas suggests many bays and estuaries will be inundated by 2100 due to sea-level rise from global warming.

The survey, commission by the Florida Wildlife and National Wildlife federations, projects if global warming continues, a resulting sea-level rise would dramatically alter the extent and composition of important coastal habitats and fishing, as we know it, could disappear in a matter of decades.

The study included Pensacola Bay, Apalachicola Bay, Tampa Bay, Charlotte Harbor, Ten Thousand Islands, Florida Bay, Biscayne Bay, St. Lucie Estuary and the Indian River Lagoon.

Based on a projected 15-inch rise in average sea levels during this century, the study found nearly 50 percent of critical salt marsh and 84 percent of tidal flats would be lost. The area of dry land is projected to decrease by 14 percent, or 174,580 acres, and roughly 30 percent of ocean beaches and two-thirds of all estuarine beaches would disappear
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How fitting this is the state of Jeb Bush... and where Gore lost the election in 2000
Global Warming will take out Florida thats a bunch of acres there... New Orleans will be gone too probably...The America we know now won't be the same in the late 2000's

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. You can already see the effects

in the Gulf around north Florida.

There are small islands and bars that I use to fish on 10 years ago, that are totally gone now.

[ClintonTyree]

3. There are parts of Route 98 that are almost in the Gulf now.

I couldn't believe it the last time I drove it. I imagine after last years hurricanes that parts of the Route ARE washed out now. Florida's pretty much fucked: if not by global warming then by the pollution of the aquifers and soil by the corporations that Jeb so cheaply sells the state out to. I got the hell out of that state 2 years ago and I don't care if I ever go back. :puke:

[NNadir]

2. You're kidding?

Who'd have thunk it?

[1monster]

4. Gore didn't lose the election in Florida. He lost it in the Supreme

Court.

I've seen a part of what was State Road A1A when I moved here drop into the ocean. The replacement portion is closer to the ocean now than the original was when I moved here.

At low tide, the beach used to go out more than a quarter mile. Not any more.

The ocean has been encroaching in Florida for a long time now. I've been thinking about buying some ocean front property in Stone Mountain, myself.