Melting Antartica could contribute 3 feet of sea-level rise by 2100

Category
Disaster
Place
Global
Date
2016
Reference
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"The Miami area is so flat that even with a mere 3 feet of sea-level rise, 'more than a third of southern Florida will vanish; at six feet, more than half will be gone.' For all these reasons, Harold Wanless, chair of University of Miami’s geological sciences department, said in 2013, 'I cannot envision southeastern Florida having many people at the end of this century.' In 2014, he said, 'Miami, as we know it today, is doomed. It’s not a question of if. It’s a question of when.'” [Romm, p. 264, 266]

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2020
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