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Florida will be like Mexico in 2080? Somehow I think Florida will be more like Atlantis, but I guess we'll see.
Sea level rise takes a lot of time. The projections I saw were somewhere around 1 m by 2100 and 10 m by 2300, depending on the amount of warming of course. I think hurricanes will be a bigger issue for them in this century.
Those sea level rise projections are global. There will be local differences. I don't know what that means for Florida though.
Similar to how on land we'll probably see higher temps than the global average, just because the sea is able to absorb so much more energy.
Also recent studies may indicate that melt rates in the Antarctic are higher than previously thought.