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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Archive that, it’s gonna vanish soon.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 7 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[–] apocalypticat 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Miami Heat will have to change their name to Miami Moist.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Projections for when though?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)
  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)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

your edit was so stealthy if befuddled even the formatter

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Right? I was wondering how I got a hanging indent. That could legit be useful

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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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[–] fluckx 13 points 2 days ago

Damn democrats and their sea machine!

Hurricane machines in 2024 and now this!?

/S

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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

Wlblblmbl mblmb blmvlbdlbl abl mlblbl

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Under the sea!

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

And this is how we can turn Florida blue.

[–] daggermoon 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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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[–] uebquauntbez 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] JustZ 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] affiliate 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

that will be a fun new tourist attraction

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] dellish 2 points 2 days ago

Ocean: "your land, my choice"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Please tell me all the trump real estate is under water

[–] MimicJar 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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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[–] ladicius 8 points 2 days ago

Financially? Always has been.

[–] andshit 8 points 2 days ago

Good, fuck Florida!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Cape Coral will certainly be living up to its name.

[–] andrewth09 5 points 2 days ago

Pfff. Have liberals never heard of red tide?

[–] Anamnesis 7 points 3 days ago

Orlando not under water. Clearly God hates humanity.

[–] Snapz 2 points 2 days ago

[Still gurgled from underwater, even while surrounded by the floating water bloated corpses of their neighbors, who weren't able to get homeowner's insurance for the prior 20 years] "let's go Brandon!"*

[–] acosmichippo 6 points 3 days ago

to be fair it’ll be more like a greenish brown.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] daggermoon 4 points 2 days ago

Ben is a dumb dumb lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Free Willy the lazy version

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mourn the loss the Key West, and... Not much else, geographically speaking.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

RIP Cape Canaveral

[–] grue 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Putting almost all the major cities underwater is only gonna make what's left more red.

[–] acosmichippo 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

well all those people have to go sonewhere

[–] PunnyName 4 points 3 days ago

They have to sell their homes first, like smart man Ben Shapiro, said. And that might take so long that they drown!

Think, man, think!

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