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|a Bursting the Bubble of Doom and Adapting to Sea Level Rise |h [electronic resource] |y English. |
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|a Shoreline |b news from the Florida Shore & Beach Preservation Association. |
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|a Please contact the owning institution for licensing and permissions. It is the user's responsibility to ensure use does not violate any third party rights. |
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|a Late Holocene sea level rise is now well documented to have accelerated subsequent to the Industrial
Revolution (c.f. Church and White 2006) and current models suggest a rise of one meter or more by the
year 2100 (c.f. Vermeer and Rahmstorf 2010). In addition, recent modeling projects a near doubling of
Category 4 and 5 storm frequency by the end of the 21st century, with the largest increases to occur in the
Western Atlantic (Bender and others 2010). This combination of factors substantially elevates the levels of
risk or hazard potential assigned to Florida’s built and natural coastal environments.
Unfortunately, the mainstream media has not properly noted the trend towards scientific consensus on
these issues (c.f. Doran and Kendall 2009), but rather continues to emphasize uncertainty. Scientists are
also to blame as they have not successfully countered media shortcomings. As a consequence, most
Floridians have yet to seriously consider how best to adapt to sea level rise or for that matter any of the
other elements of climate change.
In light of these threats or perhaps to make light of them, Walton and Dean (2010) posed the rhetorical
question “Should Floridians be moving to the mountains?” Of course the answer is no, but statements like
these are counterproductive and encourage the business-as-usual approach of continued development in
Florida’s high hazard coastal zone. |
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